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Description: The history of the originally water powered Stanley Woollen Mill in Uxbridge near the Blackstone River in Massachusetts, founded in 1833 and folded in 1989. Currently in the process of being restored for recreation and business purposes.
The Blackstone River is called the "hardest working river in America". To a few skeptics those words are nothing more than hyperbole spread by the tourism council and the local chamber of commerce. But let's think about it. The river and its tributaries spawned at least one mill in every town they passed through. These mills in turn spawned a vast transportation network, first the Blackstone Canal then a system of railroads. Operating these mills were generations of new immigrants brought into the valley by the lure of the American Dream. So the Blackstone deserves its label as a hard working river; not only because of the turbines it powered, but also because of the cultural change it effected.
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