America turns 250 this year - and almost none of it would have happened the way it did without a single stone building in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. In the first stop of a three-part series on 250 years of American manufacturing, AAM President Scott Paul tours Old Slater Mill, the birthplace of the American Industrial Revolution, with Park Ranger Allison Horrocks (Ph.D). They unpack how Samuel Slater - “Slater the Traitor” in England, the “Father of American Manufacturing” here - carried England’s closely guarded textile technology to the U.S. entirely in his head, why financier Moses Brown and William Almy bet on domestic manufacturing, and how the Blackstone River Valley became the nation’s first industrial corridor.
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Old Slater Mill - Ranger-Guided Tours: https://www.nps.gov/thingstodo/ranger-guided-tours-slater-mill.htm
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