River Spinning Company

Upon the death of owner Frank Sayles' in 1920, the Guerin Spinning Company purchased the River Spinning Company. Theophilus Guerin, who originally set up the River Spinning Company's machinery, became President and merged the River Spinning Company with the Guerin Spinning Company. In 1925, the mill was renamed River Mill. In 1935, the Guerin Spinning Company was dissolved and the site's production was taken over by the Bell Company who operated it through the 1950s.

<i>Images courtesy of the Kheel Center at Cornell University (A), the Rhode Island Historical Society (B), and the Woonsocket Historical Society (C & D)</i>