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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 820 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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WOONSOCKET , a See also:

city of See also:Providence See also:county, Rhode See also:Island, U.S.A., on both See also:banks of the See also:Blackstone See also:river, about 16 m. N. by W. of Providence. Pop. (1900) 28,204; (1905, See also:state See also:census). 32,196 (13,734 See also:foreign-See also:born, including 8939 See also:French Canadians and 1369 Irish); (1910) 38,125. Woonsocket is served by the New See also:York, New Haven & See also:Hartford railway and by an interurban electric See also:line. Among its institutions are the Sacred See also:Heart See also:College and the See also:Harris See also:Institute Public Library, founded (1863) by See also:Edward Harris, a See also:local manufacturer. Woonsocket has ample See also:water See also:power from the Blackstone river and its tributaries, the See also:Mill and the See also:Peters See also:rivers. The value of its factory products in 1905 was $19,260,537. Worsted and woollen yarns are manufactured in Woonsocket by the French and Belgian processes. Other manufactures are See also:cotton goods and yarns, See also:rubber goods, clothes wringers, silks,bobbins and shuttles, and foundry products. The first See also:settlement in the vicinity was made apparently about 1666 by See also:Richard See also:Arnold, who at about that See also:time built a saw-mill on the See also:bank of the Blackstone river.

Woonsocket was set off from See also:

Cumberland and was incorporated as a township in 1867; was enlarged by the addition of a See also:part of Smithfield in 1871, and was chartered as a city in 1888.

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