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Woonsocket, city, Providence county, northern Rhode Island, U.S., on the Blackstone River just south of the Massachusetts border. The first European occupation of the site was made by Richard Arnold, who built a sawmill in 1666; his brother John built a house there in 1695. Waterpower brought industrial development: a cotton-spinning mill was built there about 1810, and the first plant for spinning and weaving wool was erected by Edward Harris in 1840. Many of Woonsocket’s residents are of French Canadian ancestry; their forebears came from Canada to work in the textile industry. French is still the second language of ...(100 of 154 words)

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