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Study Legislation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .103

Washington History Program

Offi ce Consultation Letter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .105

Scholars Site Visit Participants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .109

Selected Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .110
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Appendix A: Study Legislation
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Appendix B: Washington History Program Offi ce Consultation Letter
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Appendix C: Scholars Site Visit Participants

Panelists:

Alison K. Hoagland, Professor of History and Historic Preservation, Michigan Technological University

Gary Kulik, scholar of early American industrial history and currently Principal at Kulik Consulting, 

Strategic Planning for Non-Profi ts

Gabrielle M. Lanier, Associate Professor of History, James Madison University 

Walter Licht, Chair and Walter H. Annenberg Professor of History, University of Pennsylvania 

David Meyer, Professor of Sociology, Brown University 

Jonathan Prude, Associate Professor of History, Emory University 

Moderators:

Larry Lowenthal, Consulting Historian, Heritage Partners, Inc.

Susan Ferentinos, Public History Coordinator, Organization of American Historians

Participants:

Chuck Arning, Interpretive Park Ranger, John H. Chaffee Blackstone River Valley NHC

Ellen Carlson, Community Planner, National Park Service, Northeast Region

Joanna Doherty, Community Planner, John H. Chafee Blackstone River Valley NHC

Richard Greenwood, Deputy Director, RI Historical Preservation and Heritage Commission

Duncan Hay, Historian, National Park Service, Northeast Region

Diane Keith, Landscape Architect, John H. Chafee Blackstone River Valley NHC

Kevin Klyberg, Interpretive Park Ranger, John H. Chafee Blackstone River Valley NHC

Lisa Kolakowsky Smith, Architectural Historian, National Park Service, Northeast Region

Terrence D. Moore, Chief of Planning and Compliance, National Park Service, Northeast Region

Sarah Peskin, Senior Resource Planner, National Park Service, Northeast Region

Edward Sanderson, Chair, John H. Chafee Blackstone River Valley NHC Commission 

and Executive Director of the RI Historical Preservation and Heritage Commission

Michael Steinitz, Director, Preservation Planning Division, Massachusetts Historical Commission
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Appendix D. Selected Bibliography

Bailey, Anthony, “Profi les: Through the Great City,” The New Yorker, 22 July 1967

Barbaro, J.R., Simulation of the effects of water withdrawals, wastewater-return fl ows, and land use change on 

streamfl ow in the Blackstone River Basin, Massachusetts and Rhode Island. USGS Investigations Report 2007-5183. 

2007.

Barrett, Brenda and Michael Taylor, “Three Models for Managing Living Landscapes,” CRM: The Journal of Heritage 

Stewardship. Volume 4, Number 2. Summer 2007, 50-65. U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service.

Center for Rural Massachusetts, University of Massachusetts/ Amherst. Land Use Management Plan for the Blackstone 

River Valley National Heritage Corridor. October 1989.

Central Massachusetts Regional Planning Commission. 2020 Growth Strategy for Central Massachusetts – An Update. 

Worcester, MA. December 2004. 

Central Massachusetts Regional Planning Commission. “Central Massachusetts Demographics.” Prepared for public 

release by Bryan Slack. April 2006.

Crawford, Margaret. Building the Workingman’s Paradise: The Design of American Company Towns. London. Verso, 

1995.

Dempsey, Claire W., Eric Johnson, Thomas Mahlstedt, Myron O. Stachiw, Michael Steinitz, and Charlotte Worsham. 

Historic and Archeological Resources of Central Massachusetts: A Framework for Preservation Decisions. Boston. 

Massachusetts Historical Commission. 1985.

Dempsey, Claire W., Richard E. Greenwood, William McKenzie Woodward, et al, The Early Architecture and 

Landscapes of the Narragansett Basin. Volume II. The Blackstone River Valley and Providence. Prepared for the 

Annual Meeting and Conference of the Vernacular Architecture Forum, Newport, Rhode Island. April 25-29, 2001.

Dempsey, Claire W. and Myron O. Stachiw, “The Late Industrial Period in the Blackstone Valley: Industry, Agriculture 

and a Changing Population.” Unpublished essay. n.d. 

Dunwell, Steve. The Run of the Mill: A Pictorial Narrative of the Expansion, Dominion, Decline and Enduring Impact 

of the New England Textile Industry. Boston. David R. Godine. 1978.

Foster, David R. and John F. O’Keefe. New England Forests Through Time: Insights from the Harvard Forest Dioramas. 

Harvard Forest, Harvard University. 2000

Frechette, Susan W. Heritage Landscape Study Regional Historic Context, Quinebaug-Shetucket and John H. Chafee 

Blackstone River Valley National Heritage Corridors. 2006.

Frontiero, Wendy with Michael B. Zuckerman and Kenneth Warchol. National Register of Historic Places Inventory – 

Nomination Form, Whitinsville Historic District. 1983.

Greenwood, Richard E., “Natural Run and Artifi cial Falls: Waterpower and the Blackstone Canal.” In Rhode Island 

History, Volume 49, Number 2. May 1991.

Heilbroner, Robert L. and Aaron Singer, The Economic Transformation of America, 2nd ed. (Harcourt, Brace, 

Jovanovich, 1984)

Hitchcock, Henry-Russell, Rhode Island Architecture. New York: Da Capo Press, 1968.

Hoagland, Alison Kim, “Report on Site Visit, Blackstone River Valley Special Resource Study, Feb. 14-16, 2008.

John H. Chafee Blackstone River Valley National Heritage Corridor Commission. Natural Resources Inventory and 

Assessment. October 1997.

John H. Chafee Blackstone River Valley National Heritage Corridor Commission. Trails and Greenways: A Vision for 

the Blackstone River Valley. February 2003.

Jones, Robert O., National Register of Historic Places Inventory – Nomination Form, Ashton Historic District. 1982.

Kulik, Gary, Roger Parks, and Theodore Z. Penn, eds., The New England Mill Village, 1790-1860. Cambridge, MA. 

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1982.

Kulik, Gary. “Notes on the Historical Signifi cance of the Blackstone Valley,” www.nps.gov/blac/parkmgmt/specialresource-study.htm. 2008.
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Leslie, Ginny, “Rhode Island’s Blackstone River State Park.” In Rhode Island History, Volume 49, Number 2. May 

1991.

Licht, Walter, Industrializing America: the 19th Century. Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 1995.

Licht, Walter “Report of the Organization of American Historians and the National Park Service on the Blackstone 

River Valley Industrial Heritage Corridor, www.nps.gov/blac/parkmgmt/special-resource-study.htm. 2008

Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation/ Massachusetts Heritage Landscape Inventory Program 

with the Blackstone River Valley National Heritage Corridor. Blackstone Valley/ Quinebaug-Shetucket Landscape 

Inventory. 2007. 

Massachusetts Department of Environmental Management, Division of Watershed Management. Blackstone River 

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Hopkins University Press. 1994

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Press, 2006)

Meyer, David R. “Report: Blackstone River Valley Special Resource Study,” www.nps.gov/blac/parkmgmt/specialresource-study.htm. 2008

National Park Service, Conservation Study Institute. Shared Legacies in Cane River National Heritage Area: Linking 

People, Traditions, and Landscapes. Evaluation and Visioning Project Report Summary. Conservation and 

Stewardship Publication No. 15. Woodstock, VT. 2008

Prude, Jonathan, The Coming of Industrial Order: Town and Factory Life in Rural Massachusetts, 1810-1860. New 

York. Cambridge University Press. 1983.

Prude, Jonathan, “Town-Factory Confl icts in Antebellum Massachusetts,” in Steven Hahn and Jonathan Prude, The 

Countryside in the Age of Capitalist Transformation. Chapel Hill. University of North Carolina Press, 1985: 71-102.

Reynolds, Doug, “Ship’s Captain, Shop’s Cotton: Wilber Kelly and Early American Industrialization.” In Rhode Island 

History, Volume 49, Number 2. May 1991.

Rhode Island Historical Preservation and Heritage Commission with the Blackstone River Valley National Heritage 

Corridor. Heritage Landscape Inventory, Blackstone River Valley. 2010.

Rhode Island Sea Grant, Fact Sheet: The Blackstone River. Prepared by Meg Kerr. Printed in 1990.

Rhode Island State Planning Program, “Part One: Rhode Island Demographics.” 2002.

Slater Mill Historic Site. Inventory of Historic Cultural Resources in the Blackstone River Valley National Heritage 

Corridor. October 1989.

Stachiw, Myron O., “Early Industrial Change, 1790-1830.” Unpublished manuscript. n.d.

Tucker, Barbara M. Samuel Slater and the Origins of the American Textile Industry, 1790-1860 (Cornell Univ., 1984)

Tuxill, Jacquelyn L., Nora J. Mitchell, Philip B. Huffman, Daniel Laven, Suzanne Copping, and Gayle Gifford. 

Refl ecting on the Past, Looking to the Future: Sustainability Study Report. A Technical Assistance Report to the John 

H. Chafee Blackstone River Valley National Heritage Corridor Commission. Woodstock, Vermont: Conservation 

Study Institute. 2005.

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New England District. Blackstone River Watershed Reconnaissance Investigation, 

Volume 1 of 2. August 1997.

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January 1984

U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service. Cultural Heritage and Land Management Plan for the 

Blackstone River Valley National Heritage Corridor. 1989. Revised 1993. Reprinted 1995.

U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service. The Next Ten Years: An Amendment to the Cultural Heritage and 

Land Management Plan. 1997.

U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service. Special Resource Study: Great Falls Historic District, Paterson, 

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Table 1: Civilian Labor Force and Unemployment by State and Metro Area. April 7, 2010. Available on-line at: http://

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U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Approved Nomination for the Blackstone and Woonaskatucket Rivers, American 

Heritage Rivers Initiative. 1997.

Vanesse, Hangen, and Brustlin, Inc. Blackstone Canal Preservation Study –Massachusetts. September 2005.

Vanesse, Hangen, and Brustlin, Inc. Blackstone Canal Preservation Study –Rhode Island. August 2010.

Ware, Caroline F. The Early New England Cotton Manufacture (Houghton Miffl in, 1931)

Web sites consulted (information sources):

Blackstone River Watershed Council/ Friends of the Blackstone

www.blackstoneriver.org

Blackstone River Watershed Association

www.thebrwa.org

Blackstone Valley Chamber of Commerce

www.blackstonevalley.org

Blackstone Valley Tourism Council

www.tourblackstone.com

Central Massachusetts Regional Planning Commission

www.cmrpc.org

Daniels Farmstead Foundation, Inc., Blackstone, MA

www.danielsfarmstead.org

Housing Works RI – 2009 Fact Book

www.housingworksri.org

Massachusetts Audubon Society/ Losing Ground Initiative

www.massaudubon.org

Massachusetts Department of Agricultural Resources

www.mass.gov/agr

Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation

www.mass.gov/dcr

Massachusetts Department of Labor and Workforce Development

www.mass.gov

Massachusetts Historical Commission

www.sec.state.ma.us/mhc

National Register of Historic Places

www.cr.nps.gov/nr

New England Farmways

www.rifarmways.org

Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management

www.dem.ri.gov

Rhode Island Economic Development Corporation – Data and Publications

www.riedc/data-and-publications

Rhode Island Historical Preservation and Heritage Commission

www.preservation.ri.gov
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Rhode Island Historical Society/ Museum of Work & Culture

www.rihs.org

Slater Mill Museum, Pawtucket, RI

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U.S. Census Bureau – American Fact Finder – Census 1990

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U.S. Census Bureau – Demographic Profi les 2000

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U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, American Heritage Rivers, Blackstone and Woonaskatucket Rivers

www.water.epa.gov/type/watersheds/named/heritage/blackstone.cfm

Waters Farm, Sutton, MA

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Personal Communication (Information Sources):

Gary Bechtoldt III, Planning Director, Northbridge, MA

Aaron Dushku, Soil Scientist, USDA, NRCS—MA

Robert Ericson, Planning Director, North Smithfi eld, RI

Paul Jordan, Supervising GIS Specialist, Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management

Vera Kolias, AICP, Principal Planner, Central Massachusetts Regional Planning Commission

Maggie Payne, Soil Scientist, USDA, NRCS—RI

Alan Ryan, Chair, Historical Commission, Hopedale, MA

Ken Warchol, Chair, Historical Commission, Northbridge, MA