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3 unusual facts about Woonsocket


St. Stanislaus Kostka Church

St. Stanislaus Kostka Parish, Woonsocket, designated for Polish immigrants in Woonsocket, Rhode Island

Willard Kent

Willard Kent (1851–1924) was an architect and engineer of Woonsocket, Rhode Island.

William E. Kaufman

In 1967 he assumed the rabbinical post at Congregation Bnai Israel in Woonsocket, Rhode Island, where he served until 1980.


Eric Lutes

Lutes was born in Woonsocket, Rhode Island and raised in Charlestown, Rhode Island, the son of Claire, an astrologer and psychiatric nurse, and John Lutes, an artist.

Henry Lippitt

Lippitt was the president of the Lippitt Woolen Company and owned various textile mills, including the Hanora Mills and Social Mill in Woonsocket.

Historic mill villages of Woonsocket

In 1832, Sullivan Dorr (father of Thomas Wilson Dorr) and Crawford Allen of Providence bought the Russell Manufacturing Company and formed the Woonsocket Mill Company and renamed the village Bernon.

History of the Franco-Americans

Many American textile manufactures and other industries opened up jobs for French-Canadian immigrants, such as ones in Lewiston and other bordering counties in Maine; Fall River, Holyoke and Lowell in Massachusetts; Woonsocket in Rhode Island; Manchester in New Hampshire and the bordering regions in Vermont.

Hope School

Hope Street School, Woonsocket, Rhode Island, listed on the NRHP in Rhode Island

John Hopkins Clarke

He was clerk of the supreme court of Providence County in 1813 and proprietor of a distillery in Cranston until 1824 when he became a cotton manufacturer in Providence, Pontiac, and Woonsocket.

Walter F. Fontaine

Later he moved to Woonsocket, Rhode Island where he began his architectural training in 1887 in the office of Willard Kent, an important architect and engineer in late 19th century Woonsocket.


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