In Pawtucket.
yes Slaters Mill is really pronounced Slater Mill
Slater Mill, in Pawtucket, Rhode Island
Poor families needed work in the Antebellum period (pre Civil War). Slater's unique methos of running his mills (The Rhode Island Method) allowed entire families to move to one of Slater's mill's without seperating. Families could live in company owned housing and earn wages.
The web address of the Slater Mill is: http://www.slatermill.org
Slater's second mill at Pawtucket.
The web address of the Old Slater Mill is: www.slatermill.org
The first mill in the country was a grist mill in Providince Rhode Island around 1629. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~streeter/stafford.pdf
Because it was the first mill inventend, it helped production.
Samuel Slater
Samuel Slater's first mill employees primarily consisted of young women and children from local farms, often referred to as "mill girls." These workers were typically recruited from the surrounding rural areas, where they were enticed by the promise of wages and independence. Slater's mill in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, became one of the first successful textile mills in the United States, relying heavily on this workforce to operate the machinery and produce cotton yarn.
Samuel Slater in 1793. In Pawtucket, Rhode Island.
The address of the Old Slater Mill is: Po Box 696, Pawtucket, RI 02862-0696