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fiogf49gjkf0d In 1793, Samuel Slater used technology surreptitiously imported from England to shove Rhode Island into the industrial age. His landmark
Old Slater Mill
is still in operation, in suburban Pawtucket. A ten-minute drive north to exit 28 on I-95, the
Slater Mill Historic Site
, on Roosevelt Avenue, also includes in its museum of the Industrial Revolution the 1810 Wilkinson Mill and the 1758
Sylvanus Brown House
(June-Nov Mon-Sat 10am-5pm, Sun noon-5pm; Dec to late April Sat & Sun 1-3pm; $7).
Other useful information
for tourists (each section contains more specific sub-sections):
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United States, Rhode Island, Pawtucket
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