Ashton Historic District (Cumberland, Rhode Island)

The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places on November 1, 1984.

[2] A compact group of associated brick row houses and other buildings, including a handsome mansard-roofed office, also were built.

This mill played a major role in 19th-century textile technology and was the site of the first large-scale test of the high-speed Sawyer spindle, one of the earliest of its type developed in the United States.

[3][4] The village is tucked into a narrow, low flood plain site at the bottom of a bluff carrying Mendon Road (Rhode Island Route 122) in this section.

This article about a Registered Historic Place in Providence County, Rhode Island is a stub.