Tag: Cotton Mill

Slater Mill Museum 67 Roosevelt Ave., Pawtucket RI 02860 401-725-8638 Open March – November for guided tours. Slater Mill was buit in 1793 and was operatonal through 1921. It is the first hydro operated cotton mill of it’s kind in America. It obtained it’s power by the Seekonk River shown […]

Located in the Grosvernordale (pop 1500) section of Thompson (pop 5000) CT sits this abandoned cotton mill which is a reminder of day’s gone by. This mill was home to the Grosvernodale Cotton Mill which closed it’s doors in 1954.  Unfortunately I wasn’t able to gather much further information about […]

NOTE:  There are two separate buildings in the photo’s.  One is four stories the other is two stories.  The rear of the four story building is also depicted. The article shown below in quotations was reproduced from Wikipedia and can be read in it’s entirety here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taftville,_Connecticut “Taftville is a […]