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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.
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 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.
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 powered by Blackstone River water flowing to the factories from hand-dug trenches. Social Village was the site of the city's first textile mill. In 1810 Ariel, Abner and Nathan Ballou ...
Woonsocket, which had 19 licensed rooming houses in 1964, is down to just four today. Pawtucket had 55 rooming houses in 1960, but there were just 15 by 1980, and city officials say they’re not ...
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 popular theory in Rhode Island is that the dynamite sandwich was invented in Woonsocket. "It is the sandwich that is the most famous meal in the city that also originated family-style chicken ...
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