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Woonsocket is a part of the Providence metropolitan area, which has an estimated population of 1,622,520. There were 17,750 households, out of which 31.2% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 39.4% were married couples living together, 16.2% had a female householder with no husband present, and 39.3% were non-families.
The city of Woonsocket in the U.S. state of Rhode Island was established as a union of six mill villages along the Blackstone River. These villages are described in more detail below. Woonsocket Falls Village was founded in the 1820s, taking up much of the area around Market Square. Entrepreneurs built many factories in the area which were ...
This is a list of National Register of Historic Places listings in Woonsocket, Rhode Island. Included in the list are all properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in the city of Woonsocket, Rhode Island, United States. Woonsocket is home to 44 of the more than 400 properties and districts listed in Providence County.
The North End Historic District is a historic district in Woonsocket, Rhode Island encompassing an affluent residential area developed predominantly between about 1880 and 1930. It is bounded by Harris Avenue on the west, Winter Street on the north, Summer and Prospect Streets to the east, and Spring and Blackstone Streets to the south.
The Main Street Historic District is a historic district in the central business district of Woonsocket, Rhode Island, USA.It extends along Main Street, between the railroad tracks just northeast of its junction with Clinton Street, and roughly Ascension Street at the southwest.
The South Main Street Historic District is a residential historic district in Woonsocket, Rhode Island.It extends along South Main Street between Mason Street on one end and Andrews and Bradford Streets on the other, and includes properties on adjacent streets, principally Ballou and North Ballou Streets.
The Lafayette Worsted Company Administrative Headquarters Historic District encompasses the two surviving buildings of a once-extensive textile mill complex in Woonsocket, Rhode Island. Located near the Woonsocket Middle School on Hamlet Avenue are a former guest house, built about 1920, and the mill's 1923 administration building, an elaborate ...
Allen Street Historic District is a historic district encompassing a collection of smaller textile mills in central Woonsocket, Rhode Island.The district extends on either side of Allen Street, a road isolated between Truman Drive (built in the mid-20th century) and the Blackstone River, and includes buildings dating from c. 1860 to c. 1930.