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Sakonnet Historical

Sakonnet Historical

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Brought to you by the Little Compton Historical Society, the Tiverton Public Library, and the John Nicholas Brown Center for Public Humanities and Cultural Heritage, Sakonnet Historical puts the history of Tiverton and Little Compton, Rhode Island, at your fingertips. Explore unique historic places and create self-guided tours. Discover interesting people, places and events in Sakonnet River history.

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This 1934 photo of Bourne Mill operatives was most likely taken in one of the mill's spinning rooms. Spinning rooms were traditionally dominated by women. The two men in the photo were likely the foreman and the mechanic responsible for maintaining the machines. Like most other mills in Fall River, Bourne Mill produced specially-ordered "odd goods," particularly sateens, a cotton cloth made with a satin weave, and twills, a type of weave that produces cloth of greater firmness and weight than can be produced using similar yarns in a plain weave. By 1900, the mill was producing over 17,000,000 yards of cloth annually.

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Strike! Strike! Strike! It was a warm summer day in July of 1904, and tensions were running high in Fall River, Massachusetts. Earlier in the month, the Fall River Cotton Manufacturers’…

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