Hope Street and Robinson Avenue, roughly parallels the Ten Mile River, the power source for the industries during that time.

The area has been industrially significant since the early 18th century, when a grist mill was operated near the falls.

A wood frame factory stands at 35 Robinson Avenue, which was home to the B. S. Freeman Company, a jewelry maker, between 1858 and 1913; it may incorporate elements of an even older building in its rambling structure.

Hope Street, in an area that is part of the Attleborough Falls Historic District.

Later factory owners continued this trend, with Samuel Mason, a boxmaker, building a Gothic Revival house at 204 Commonwealth, and jewelry maker Frank Sturdy a Queen Anne Victorian at 234 Commonwealth.