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Slater Mill complex on Blackstone River, on a site offered both water power & ship access.
| Slater Mill Historic Site pond overview.
| Wilkinson Mill (1810) which milled the tools used in adjacent Slater Mill.
| Rough stone surface of Wilkinson Mill.
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Water wheel which powered Wilkinson Mill.
| Gears which transmitted power from water wheel in Wilkinson Mill.
| Planking machine which surfaced lumber boards in Wilkinson Mill.
| Wilkinson Mill & Sylvanus Brown house at Slater Mill Historic Site.
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Sylvanus Brown house (1758) occupied (1784-1824) by the patternmaker who made the machinery for the Slater Mill.
| Shaker boxes, part of the furnishings of the Sylvanus Brown house.
| Slater Mill over mill raceway.
| Slater Mill entrance tower.
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Slater Mill bell tower once used to signal workers to wake up & then again to come to work when workers lacked clocks.
| Slater Mill & dam (1793), the first cotton mill in America, now an industrial museum.
| Cotton Gin (1930) by Carver Cotton Gin Company of East Bridgewater, MA automated process of removing seeds from cotton.
| 500 lb bale of cotton as shipped from Southern US plantations.
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Cotton bale breaker (c1840) where rotating spikes chipped off pieces from compressed cotton bales.
| Mannequin reminds Slater Mill visitors that running a cotton carding machine (replica c1790) was dangerous child labor.
| Cotton carding engine (c1870) by Franklin Machine Co., Providence RI.
| Cotton drawing frame (1922) by Howard & Bullough, Accrington, England & Pawtucket.
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Speeder / Roving Machine (c1830) by Locks & Canal Co., Lowell, MA.
| Arkwright Water Frame (replica c1775) after R. Arkwright, Derbyshire, England.
| Throstle Spinning Frame (c1835) Locks & Canal Co., Lowell, MA.
| Thread Manufacturing Machine or Spinning Mule (1909) by Hetherington & Sons, Manchester, England.
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Hetherington Spinning Mule in expanded position where child labor once worked under mechanism fetching broken threads.
| Jacquard loom where wooden punch cards programmed pattern to be woven.
| Details of Jacquard loom at Slater Mill Historic Site Museum.
| Narrow Fabric Loom (1899) by Crompton & Knowles, Worcester, MA.
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Circular Knitting Machine (1891) by Tompkins Brothers Machine Co., Troy, NY.
| Circular Knitting Machine technical details.
| Maypole Braider (c1872) by New England Butt Co, Providence, RI.
| High-Speed Braider (c1920) by Wardwell Braiding Machine Co., Central Falls, RI for wrapping electrical wiring with insulating thread.
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Stained glass advertising salvaged from New England Butt Co, Providence, RI.
| Church seen across mill waterfall at Slater Mill Historic Site.
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