Stories from Pawtucket
Best known as the birthplace of America's industrial revolution, the city of Pawtucket boasts a rich history filled with stories of vice and virtue, bicycles a…
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Liberty Arming the Patriotlocation_fillHe looks surprised to see her but who can blame him? Goddesses do not often descend from the heavens and commu…
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Chocolateville's Sweet Legacylocation_fillIn the 1780s, a visitor traveling through the Blackstone River Valley might have smelled the rich aroma of roa… -
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Order Up! . . .location_fillStep through the doors of the Modern Diner, slide into a window booth or snag a stool at the counter, and orde… -
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Bicycle Racing at the Pawtucket Cotton Centenarylocation_fillDespite the rain, a troupe of bicyclists and mustached men costumed as knights, clowns, pages, and a prince pa… -
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“God’s Free Gift to Man and Beast”location_fillAll across America people ridiculed and smashed Henry D. Cogswell’s fountains, but this one survives in downto… -
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Pawtucket’s Daredevillocation_fillSam Patch swung his hat and leapt off the cliff, cutting through the mist towards the seething whirlpool below… -
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“4 or 5 Active Lads to Serve in Cotton Factory”location_fillOn January 3, 1791, Ann Arnold walked into the newly founded Slater Mill and onto the pages of history as one …
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