PAWTUCKET  , a See also:

• CITY (through Fr. cite, from Lat. civitas)

city of See also:

• PROVIDENCE

Providence See also:

• COUNTY (through Norm. Fr. comae, cf. O. Fr. cunte, conk', Mod. Fr. comae, from Lat. comitatus, cf. Ital. comitato, Prov. comtat; see COUNT)

county, Rhode See also:

• ISLAND (O.E. ieg =isle, +land')

Island, U.S.A., on the See also:

• BLACKSTONE, SIR WILLIAM (1723-1780)

Blackstone See also:

• RIVER

river (known below the Pawtucket Falls here as the Pawtucket or Seekonk river), 4 M . N. of Providence, and near the city of Central Falls . Pop . (1905, See also:

• STATE
• STATE, GREAT OFFICERS OF

state See also:

• CENSUS (from Lat. censere, to estimate or assess; connected by some with centum, i.e. a count by hundreds)

census), 43,381, of whom 14,369 were See also:

• FOREIGN

foreign-See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born, including 4273 See also:

• ENGLISH

English, 3484 Irish, 2706 See also:

• FRENCH
• FRENCH, DANIEL CHESTER (1850– )
• FRENCH, NICHOLAS (1604-1678)

French Canadians, and 1198 Scotch; (1910), 51,622 . Pawtucket is served by the New See also:

• YORK
• YORK (HOUSE OF)
• YORK, EDMUND OF LANGLEY, DUKE OF (1341-1402)
• YORK, EDWARD
• YORK, FREDERICK AUGUSTUS, DUKE OF (1763-1827)
• YORK, RICHARD, DUKE

York, New Haven & See also:

• HARTFORD

Hartford railroad; and the river is navigable below the falls . The city lies on both sides of the river and its See also:

• LAND

land See also:

• AREA

area in 1906 was nearly 8.6 m . The See also:

• EAST
• EAST, ALFRED (1849- )

east See also:

• BANK

bank of the river rises quite abruptly 15-30 ft., but back of this the See also:

• SURFACE

surface is level or only slightly undulating . On the See also:

• WEST
• WEST, BENJAMIN (1738-1820)
• WEST, NICHOLAS (1461-1533)

west See also:

• SIDE
• SIDE (mod. Eski Adalia)

side the surface is more diversified . The Blackstone River here makes a picturesque plunge of nearly 50 ft . (Pawtucket Falls) over an irregular See also:

• MASS (O.E. maesse; Fr. messe; Ger. Messe; Ital. messa; from eccl. Lat. missa)
• MASS, IN

mass of rocks, providing a See also:

• GOOD, JOHN MASON (1764-1827)

good See also:

• WATER

water-See also:

• POWER [WILLIAM GRATTAN] TYRONE (1797-1841)

power . The most attractive public See also:

• BUILDING

building is the Sayles Memorial library, erected (1899-1902) by See also:

• FREDERICK
• FREDERICK (Mod. Ger. Friedrich; Ital. Federigo; Fr. Frederic and Federic; M.H.G. Friderich; O.H.G. Fridurih, " king or lord of peace," from O.H.G. fridu, A.S. frith, " peace," and rfh " rich," " a ruler," for derivation of which see HENRY)

Frederick See also:

• CLARK, FRANCIS EDWARD (1851- )
• CLARK, GEORGE ROGERS (1752—1818)
• CLARK, JOHN BATES (1847— )
• CLARK, JOSIAH LATIMER (1822—1898)
• CLARK, SIR ANDREW
• CLARK, SIR JAMES (1788—1870)
• CLARK, THOMAS (1801—1867)
• CLARK, WILLIAM (1770-1838)
• CLARK, WILLIAM GEORGE (1821—1878)

Clark Sayles (1835—1902) in memory of his wife . The city has a See also:

• PARK (Fr. part; Ital. parco; Sp. Marque; O.Eng. pearroc; connected with Ger. pferch, fold, and pfarrei, district, translating med. Lat. parochia, parish)
• PARK, EDWARDS AMASA (1808–1900)
• PARK, MUNGO (1771-1806?)

park of 181 acres in the east end, a park of 55 acres on the west side, three small parks near the business centre, a soldiers' See also:

• MONUMENT (Lat. monumentum or monumentum; from monere, to advise, bring to mind, remind; the German equivalent is Denkmal)

monument, a See also:

• HOME
• HOME, DANIEL DUNGLAS (1833-1886)
• HOME, EARLS OF

home for the aged, an emergency See also:

• HOSPITAL (Lat. haspitalis, the adjective of hospes, host or guest)

hospital, and a state armoury .

Manufacturing is the See also:

• PRINCIPAL

principal See also:

• INDUSTRY (Lat. industria, from indu-, a form of the pre, position in, and either stare, to stand, or struere, to pile up)

industry, and the value of the factory products increased from $19,271,582 in 290o to $25,846,899 in 1905, or 34.1% . More than one-See also:

• HALF

half the value for 1905 was represented by textiles . Other important manufactures in 1905 were foundry and See also:

• MACHINE
• MACHINE (through Fr. from Lat. form machina of Gr. µnxavil)

machine-See also:

• SHOP

shop products, packed meats, and See also:

• ELECTRICAL
• ELECTRICAL (or ELECTROSTATIC) MACHINE

electrical machinery, apparatus and supplies . The See also:

• COMMERCE
• COMMERCE (Lat. commercium, from, cum, together, and rnerx, merchandise)

commerce of the city has been much increased by the deepening and widening of the channel of the Pawtucket river by the See also:

• UNITED

United States See also:

• GOVERNMENT
• GOVERNMENT (0. Fr. governement, mod. gouvernement, O. Fr. governer, mod. gouverner, from Lat. gubernare, to steer a ship, guide, rule; cf. Gr. xv(3epvav)

government . In 1867 the river could not be navigated at See also:

• LOW, SETH (1850- )
• LOW, WILL HICOK (1853- )

low water by boats See also:

• DRAWING

drawing more than 5 ft. of water, but by See also:

• MARCH
• MARCH (1) (from Fr. marcher, to walk; the earliest sense in French appears to be " to trample," and the origin has usually been found in the Lat. marcus, hammer; Low Lat. marcare, to hammer; hence to beat the road with the regular tread of a soldier: cf.
• MARCH, AUZIAS (c. "1395-1458)
• MARCH, EARLS OF
• MARCH, FRANCIS ANDREW (1825– )

March 1905 the government had constructed a channel 1c0 ft. wide and 12 ft. deep at low water, and See also:

• CONGRESS (Lat. congressus, coming together, from congredi; cum, with, and gradus, step)

Congress had passed an See also:

• ACT (Lat. actus, actum)

act for increasing the See also:

• DEPTH

depth to 16 ft.; in 1907 the Federal Congress and the See also:

• GENERAL
• GENERAL (Lat. generalis, of or relating to a genus, kind or class)

general See also:

• ASSEMBLY, UNLAWFUL

assembly of the state made appropriations to See also:

• COMPLETE

complete the See also:

• WORK

work . That portion of Pawtucket which lies east of the river was originally a See also:

• PART

part of the township of Rehoboth, See also:

• MASSACHUSETTS (an Indian name, originally applied to a tribe of Indians)

Massachusetts, but in 1812 the township of Seekonk was set apart from Rehoboth, in 1828 the township of Pawtucket was set apart from Seekonk, and in 1862 almost all of the Massachusetts township of Pawtucket was transferred to Rhode Island . The portion west of the river was taken from the township of See also:

• NORTH
• NORTH, BARONS
• NORTH, MARIANNE (1830—1890)
• NORTH, ROGER (1653-1734)
• NORTH, SIR THOMAS (1535?-16o1?)

North Providence and annexed to the township of Pawtucket in 1874, and in 1885 Pawtucket was chartered as a city . The first See also:

• SETTLEMENT
• SETTLEMENT, ACT OF

settlement within the See also:

• PRESENT

present city limits was made about 1670 on the west side by See also:

• JOSEPH
• JOSEPH, COMTE DE (1785-1870)
• JOSEPH, FATHER (FRANCOIS LECLERC DU TREMBLAY) (1577-1638)

Joseph See also:

• JENKS, JEREMIAH WHIPPLE (1856– )

Jenks (c . 1632-1717), a manufacturer of domestic See also:

• IRON [symbol Fe, atomic weight 55.85 (0=16)]

iron implements . His manufactory was destroyed during See also:

• KING
• KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
• KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
• KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
• KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
• KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
• KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
• KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
• KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
• KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
• KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
• KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)

King See also:

• PHILIP
• PHILIP (Gr.'FiXtrsro , fond of horses, from dn)^eiv, to love, and limos, horse; Lat. Philip pus, whence e.g. M. H. Ger. Philippes, Dutch Filips, and, with dropping of the final s, It. Filippo, Fr. Philippe, Ger. Philipp, Sp. Felipe)
• PHILIP, JOHN (1775-1851)
• PHILIP, KING (c. 1639-1676)
• PHILIP, LANOGRAVE OF HESSE (1504-1567)

Philip's See also:

• WAR
• WAR (O. Eng. werre, Fr. guerre, of Teutonic origin; cf. O.H.G. werran, to confound)

War, but he rebuilt it, and until a See also:

• CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century later the See also:

• INDUSTRIES

industries on the west side were managed largely by his See also:

• FAMILY

family . In 1790 See also:

• SAMUEL

Samuel See also:

• SLATER, JOHN FOX (1815-1884)
• SLATER, SAMUEL (1768-1835)

Slater reproduced here the See also:

• ARKWRIGHT, SIR RICHARD (1732-1792)

Arkwright machinery for the manufacture of See also:

• COTTON
• COTTON (Fr. coton; from Arab. qutun)
• COTTON, CHARLES (163o–1687)
• COTTON, GEORGE EDWARD LYNCH (1813–1866)
• COTTON, JOHN (1585–1652)
• COTTON, SIR ROBERT BRUCE

cotton goods; this was the first manufactory of the See also:

• KIND (O. E. ge-cynde, from the same root as is seen in " kin," supra)

kind that had any considerable success in the United States, and his old See also:

• MILL
• MILL (O. Eng. mylen, later myln, or miln, adapted from the late Lat. molina, cf. Fr. moulin, from Lat. mola, a mill, molere, to grind; from the same root, mol, is derived " meal;" the word appears in other Teutonic languages, cf. Du. molen, Ger. muhle)
• MILL, JAMES (1773-1836)
• MILL, JOHN (c. 1645–1707)
• MILL, JOHN STUART (1806-1873)

mill is still See also:

• STANDING

standing in Mill See also:

• STREET
• STREET, GEORGE EDMUND (1824-1881)

Street . See R .

Grieve, An Illustrated See also:

• HISTORY

History of Pawtucket, Central Falls, and Vicinity (Pawtucket, 1897) .