Statement of Harry H. Burton, manager of the Lonsdale Company, Providence, R.I. : submitted to the committee of cabinet members appointed by the President of the United States, to study the cotton textile industry : Tuesday, April 30, 1935 : typescript, 1935.

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Statement of Harry H. Burton, manager of the Lonsdale Company, Providence, R.I. : submitted to the committee of cabinet members appointed by the President of the United States, to study the cotton textile industry : Tuesday, April 30, 1935 : typescript, 1935.

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11 leaves ; 28 cm.

Rhode Island Historical Society

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The Lonsdale Water Power Company, an unchartered corporation founded by the firm of Brown & Ives with Edward Carrington and others, was organized in 1825. The company proceeded to buy up estates and water rights along the Blackstone River in the towns of Smithfield and Cumberland, Rhode Island. In 1831, the company began construction of a mill - later called Lonsdale Mill No. 1- and organized around that mill the village they named Lonsdale in Smithfield. As well wi...