#slatersville

[americanbuildings]

Historic American Buildings Survey, Arthur W. LeBoeuf, Photographer, 1937 CHURCH AND MILL HOUSES. - Slatersville Green, Green & School Streets, Slatersville, Providence County, RI

[fishstickmonkey]

Mr. Carpentier, French-Canadian FSA (Farm Security Administration) client. He works at a mill in Woonsocket and runs an eleven-acre farm with one cow and one pig. Slatersville, Rhode Island, 1940 Dec.

Jack Delano

Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Photograph Collection (Library of Congress)

[rhodeislandfacts]

The village of Slatersville, located in North Smithfield, was founded by brothers Samuel and John Slater in 1803. It was the country’s first planned industrial mill village, owned and run by the Slater family until the turn of the 20th century for the employees of Slater Mill.

Many of the original structures are preserved in the downtown Historic District, including John Slater’s house, pictured above.

[clopez120683]

One of the reasons I went to this place cause I wanted to find the supposed cliff jumping place in RI, Burriville. Turns out it was in the boarder of Buriville and Slatersville, its the Slaters Reservoir. But they stopped cliff jumping there because someone actually died. Though, this water is really clean and good for it :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSApHjRcsoYhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4cET1T0tDY

[moreteaforme]

Slatersville Documentary Indiegogo Campaign

America's First Mill Village

[moreteaforme]

Slatersville, Rhode Island. The first planned mill village in America.