[wzslider autoplay=”true” interval=”6000″ height=”800″ info=”true” lightbox=”true”]In circa 1918 the privately owned Stillwater Woorsted Mill was built in Harrisivlle RI.  The Clearview River runs through Harrisville and was home to a number of manufacturing concerns through the 1900’s.  Many of which were mill types dedicated to manufacturing textiles. The Stillwater Mill was the largest of the mills in town and at it’s peak employed approx. 600 people.  Folks even kept their jobs throughout the great depression as manufacturing continued. The owner would put the production into inventory for sale at a later time.  This mill also provided the material for military uniforms during WWII. In 1963 Harrisivlle and it’s community were dealt…