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Slater Park is the oldest and largest public park in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. The park is named after Samuel Slater, a famous American industrialist who constructed America's first water-powered textile mill in Pawtucket. The park lies on the banks of the beautiful Ten Mile River and features the 1685 Daggett House, the oldest house in ...
Slater Park Zoo is a former zoo in Pawtucket, Rhode Island that operated until the mid-1990s. History. Early in Slater Park's development, a small collection of ...
Fanny became a symbol of the city and spent more than three decades in Pawtucket at the Slater Park Zoo, now called Daggett Farm. While at the Slater Park Zoo, once named one of the worst zoos in America by the TV show 60 Minutes , [ citation needed ] Fanny was housed in a small barn, with only a tiny, barren enclosure in which to walk and was ...
Pawtucket (/ p ə ˈ t ʌ k ɪ t / ⓘ pə-TUK-it [5]) is a city in Providence County, Rhode Island, United States. The population was 75,604 at the 2020 census, making the city the fourth-largest in the state. Pawtucket borders Providence and East Providence to the south, Central Falls and Lincoln to the north, and North Providence to the west.
Slater Park (ID76000004 [1]) Added to NRHP: June 30, 1976: The Daggett House is an historic house in Slater Park in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. The house is the oldest ...
The Slater Mill is a historic water-powered textile mill complex on the banks of the Blackstone River in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, modeled after cotton spinning mills first established in England. It is the first water-powered cotton spinning mill in America to use the Arkwright system of cotton spinning as developed by Richard Arkwright .
The Looff Carousel in Pawtucket, Rhode Island is a historic carousel which was built in 1895 by Charles I. D. Looff. The carousel was originally located in a carnival called Lee Funland in upstate, New York. The carousel was relocated to its present location at Slater Park in 1910 where it continues to operate. [1]
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