Blackrock is a village in Kent County, Rhode Island, United States, located in the town of Coventry between the villages of Anthony and Arkwright.

The area was named after a large dark rock which was rumored to be the site of Native American marriage ceremonies.

The village of 40 people was founded in 1814 when William Greene first sold a parcel of his land to the Black Rock Cotton Manufacturing Company for the initial construction of a dam on the Black Rock Brook which flows from Black Rock Pond.

Nicholas Potter bought the mill in 1824 and converted it into a machine shop and later a broom factory.

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