Both are very close to and virtually part of the Wheelockville District, where the Stanley Woolen Mill was built in 1852.

The site is the geographic center of the John H. Chaffee Blackstone River Valley National Historic Corridor, a region of national significance to the earliest industrialization of the United States.

The Luke Taft Mill, and its successors were important footnotes in the early textile industry of the US.

Innovations here included power looms, satinets, mixed textile blends, and wash and wear fabrics.

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