Taking advantage of the water power provided by the Woonasquatucket River, early industrialists established mills, the first two being constructed in 1827 and 1830.
The early industrialists were proud of their achievements and liked to have them in full view.
It was once the seat of the Walker family, who were early industrialists involved in the manufacture of iron and steel.
John Christie was an early industrialist born in Scotland in 1774 and who died at the age of 83 in 1858.
Robert was one of the early industrialists in the area.
The ambitions of early wealthy industrialists are represented in the homes they built.
Clayton is not the only house built by the city's early industrialists to remain.
Ichabod Washburn, an early industrialist, developed a process for extruding steel wire.
-1819), an early American industrialist in western Pennsylvania.
There are two reasons the site was so useful to the early industrialists.