Samuel Slaters success established the textile factory system In America. and gave birth to the U.S. industrial revolution. This important story In our labor and manufacturing history deserves to be told and remembered. The Blackstone River valley. where Slater Mill still stands today. recalls a neglected era of the American past: the age of industry. The valley is the story of a people at work. It is the story of entrepreneurs * * of families at work in factories and on farms .* of industrial managers and labor organizers * * * of immigrants of religious dissidents and conformists. Today. people continue to work In and around the nationally significant buildings and historic communities. Recently.
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