Pawtucket Falls
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Pawtucket Falls is a waterfall at the end of the Blackstone River in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. It flows into the Seekonk River, a tidal extension of Narragansett Bay. The falls provided power for Samuel Slater’s cotton spinning mill, which was built in 1793 and is said to have been responsible for starting the Industrial Revolution in America.
Pawtucket Falls is also the name of a waterfall on the Merrimack River at Lowell, Massachusetts. The waterfall and rapids below it drop a total of 32 feet in a little over a mile.
Pawtucket is an Algonkian word meaning "at the falls in the river (tidal stream)".
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