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Coordinates: 41°52′39″N 71°22′59″W 41.877614000000001, -71.383063000000007

Slater Mill Historic Site

• Location & Contact Information
  • Address: 67 Roosevelt Avenue Pawtucket RI 02862
  • Telephone Number: +1-401-725-8638
  • Official Website: [1]
• Overview

Slater Mill Historic Site, also known as Slater Mill or Old Slater Mill, is located on the Blackstone River in Pawtucket, RI. It is generally cited as the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution in America. It is modeled after a mill in England where Samuel Slater, the mills founder, had been an employee. Moses Brown of Providence, Rhode Island, Brown family was one of the major owners of the Mill.Slater Mill was built in 1793. It served as the first commercially viable cotton-spinning mill in the United States. It was used to convert raw cotton into cloth. Slater brought this new technology from England where he had learned it from Jedediah Strutt. Slaters design was based on Richard Arkwrights cotton spinning system which included carding, drawing, and spinning machines.Slater Mill has the distinction of carrying the first, lowest reference number in the National Register of Historic Places reference number series, although many hundreds of other sites were listed on the NRHP before it.Oddly, the NRIS and NHL summary systems give that it was listed on NRIS and designated an NHL on November 13, 1966, while hundreds of other NHLs were designated from 1960 to 1965, and all of those were listed onto the National Register on October 15, 1966. The site was further designated a National Historic Landmark on the same date in 1966.{{citation|title={{PDFlink|^[1]

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