Blackstone Valley Stake Conference and Blackstone River Valley Corridor Mills - Start of Industrial Revolution in America

Blackstone Valley Stake Conference - Visiting Authority Seventy was Michel J. Carter

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Blackstone River Valley Mills - Industrial Revolution in America

Stanley Woolen Mill is the common historic name applied to a defunct company based in southeastern Massachusetts and to the company's buildings which stand at the southern entrance to the Blackstone River and Canal Heritage State Park. The mill is an important footnote in the history of the textile industry in America.^[1][2][3][4] Stanley Woolen Mill is the centerpiece of the Central Woolen Mills District which is part of the National Historic Register.

The Stanley Woolen Mill

The Stanley Woolen Mill - The main factory building represents the last of a line of wooden textile mills built for mechanized manufacturing in Massachusetts and in the US.^[1] This mill helped to pioneer satinet, cashmeres, and utilized power looms, (first developed for woolens in the U.S. by John Capron from Uxbridge).^[2] Stanley Woolen had a long history of manufacturing military uniforms from the time of the American Civil War through the World Wars and including for the allied armies of Europe in World War I.

The Linwood Mill was built in 1866 by members of the Whitin family, who had purchased land in the area in the late 1840s. The Linwood property was built to process cotton, and produced cambrics, sateens, and shirting fabric. The original mill was a 3+1⁄2-story brick structure, which was expanded c. 1870 with the addition of a steam power plant in order to increase production.