Part of the 1790s-vintage Slater Mill complex in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, modeled after cotton spinning mills established in England

It can be argued that the Industrial Revolution began here, at least in the United States. On the adjacent Blackstone River, Samuel Slater was the first in the New World to build a water-powered, cotton-spinning factory.
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Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:052-3)
Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.
Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.