Hamlet Mill

In 1825, textile manufacturer Edward Carrington decided to take advantage of Woonsocket’s newly constructed canal to establish a mill privilege on this site. Carrington and his agent, Stephen Smith, operated the Hamlet Mill, a cotton manufacturer, at this location until 1842. Power for the mill required a dam on the Blackstone and a long headrace from a point about a half-mile upstream of site. As it evolved through several owners in the 19th century, the mill complex came to include two main buildings and two long masonry rowhouses of worker housing to the northwest.