Lonsdale Ave., Blackstone Ct., Front, Main, Cook, Broad, Mill, Cross and Blackstone Sts., Lonsdale, Rhode Island. County/parish: Providence.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places May 25, 1984. NRIS 84002022.
118 contributing buildings. 3 contributing structures.Also known as:
Lonsdale (also known as Londsdale) is a village and historic district in Lincoln and Cumberland, Providence County, Rhode Island, United States, near Rhode Island Route 146 and Route 95. The village was originally part of the town of Smithfield until Lincoln was created in the 1870s, and was originally centered on the Lincoln side of the Blackstone River. William Blaxton settled in the area in 1635. In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Lonsdale was home to several manufacturers including the Lonsdale Company's Bleachery, and the Ann & Hope mill was also located in the village in Cumberland.
The historic district encompasses a variety of mill-related resources in the central part of Lonsdale. Mill worker housing along Front, John, Lonsdale, and Main Streets is included on the Lincoln side of the Blackstone, while the Ann & Hope factory complex in Cumberland is included, as are mill housing areas on Blackstone Court and on Main, Cross, and Blackstone Streets.
In 1922, it's textile mills were temporarily shutdown by the New England Textile Strike over an attempted wage cut and hours increase. During which on July 10, ten families in Lonsdale were evicted from their homes owned by the mill they had worked for.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41375381