Old Wood Building - Slatersville RI
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nomadwillie
N 41° 59.965 W 071° 34.715
19T E 286438 N 4652928
The main office was built in 1806 for the original mill built in 1804.
Waymark Code: WMQVC0
Location: Rhode Island, United States
Date Posted: 03/31/2016
Views: 2
On one side is the Congregational Church, facing south and overlooking the buildings of the Finishing Company in a hollow to the left. (paragraph 30
The modern Slatersville Finishing Company buildings fill up the hollow in the center of the village(L), the Green. Heere also is the old wood building (1804) of the Slater enterprise, and the Stone Mill(1826) with a belfry. In the 19th century this bell was rung as curfew to warn youngsters off the streets at 9 P.M. (paragraph 8)
p 377, Rhode Island, A Guide to the Smallest State, 1937
Serving as the main office to the original mill built in 1804, today it still serves as an office to the residential apartments that the mill was converted to. Unique to the building is trapdoor monitor-roof windows, which were similar to the original wood mill built on site.
Book: Rhode Island
Page Number(s) of Excerpt: 377
Year Originally Published: 1937
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