BLACKSTONE

Blackstone River -

The Blackstone River Valley Tourism Council. Archaeological records show that Native Americans lived in the Blackstone River Valley at least 5,000 years ago. While the first European settler, the Rev. William Blackstone, settled on the river's banks in 1635, the area stretching from Pawtucket, Rhode Island to Worcester, Massachusetts, really came into its own as a child of America's Industrial Revolution.

Blackstone River Valley National Heritage Corridor -

Rhode Island & Massachusetts - The Blackstone River Valley offers a unique opportunity to experience over 300 years of America's growth as a people and as a nation. Growth in personal freedoms, growth from a struggling isolated agrarian society to unified interdependent communities, and growth as an industrial power.