Slater Mill
1793 - Museum
Overview
Samuel Slater, an emigrant from Derbyshire, built the first successful water powered cotton spinning mill in America at Pawtucket, Rhode Island. Carrying British machine designs in his memory, he is remembered as the father of the American Industrial Revolution.
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