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Pawtucket| City in northeast Rhode Island, on the Blackstone River, 6 mi/10 km north of Providence; population (1996 est) 69,000. Industries include the manufacture of textiles, machinery, metalware, tires, paper, jewelry, and glass. Pawtucket was settled by an ironworker in 1671, and became the home of the first US water-powered cotton mill, set up by Samuel Slater in 1790. |
| The city concentrated on the production of textiles and ironmongery until the end of World War I, when a large part of the region's textile industry relocated to the southern states, and its economy was forced to diversify. |
| The original factory of Old Slater Mill remains in operation as a working museum. |
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