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It is located at 108 Smithfield Road in Woonsocket, Rhode Island (across the street from North Smithfield). The meetinghouse is home to one of the oldest Quaker communities in the region. Rhode Island provided a home to many Quaker refugees in the 17th century, and in the early 18th century a group of "Friends" started this congregation.
Riverzedge is a non-profit arts organization centered on providing arts education and programming for underserved youth in the Woonsocket area. Riverzedge was founded in 2002. In 2014, the organization moved into its Second Avenue Studio Complex, in the building of a closed elementary school, and purchased that building, from the city of ...
From 1910 to 1917, Rhode Island Boy Scouts established groups (troops) throughout Rhode Island, except in Newport, Blackstone Valley and Woonsocket. In these locations, troops were organized and affiliated with the National Council Boy Scouts of America. In 1917, Rhode Island Boy Scouts ‘merged’ with the National movement.
The Museum of Work and Culture is a museum in Woonsocket, Rhode Island, that features exhibits focusing on the city's textile manufacturing heritage. The museum is operated by the Rhode Island Historical Society and located at 42 South Main Street in Market Square in the Blackstone River Valley National Heritage Corridor. [1]
Art posters cover the walls in one resident's room at 233 High St. in Woonsocket, one of the last remaining rooming houses in Rhode Island. A cost-effective option from an earlier era Rooming ...
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 ...
The Island Place Historic District is a historic district at Island Place and South Main Street at Market Square in Woonsocket, Rhode Island. The district includes six historic buildings, three of which are part of the Woonsocket Rubber Company Mill, dating from c. 1857 to c. 1919. The other buildings in the district are the Island Machine ...
Woonsocket (/ w ʊ n ˈ s ɒ k ɪ t, w ə n-/ ⓘ wuun-SOK-it, wən-[6]), is a city in Providence County, Rhode Island, United States. The population was 43,240 at the 2020 census , making it the sixth largest city in the state.