The Blackstone Valley is a corridor of national significance to America's earliest industrial revolution.

The family owned business begun by Jerry Wheelock and his father in law continues today, under the name of Berrocco, Inc.

Waucantuck Mill was razed in 2010 because of toxic wastes, and only a storage shed remains of the original Luke Taft enterprise.

In later years the Wheelock family had ownership of the Moses Taft Mill and the village took the name of Wheelockville.

The original mills built here by Daniel Day, and Luke Taft, were powered by water from the local rivers.

This system of water powered mills, driven by dams, with spillways, and surrounded by mill villages, was first developed at nearby Slatersville, Rhode Island, by John and Samuel Slater, and became known as "The Rhode Island System".

The Moses Taft mill ran 24/7 during the American Civil War making Union Blue Uniforms.

[2] The same mill made Khaki Uniforms and cloth for the armies of France and Italy during the World War I.