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Blackstone Canal, Front Street & Lonsdale Avenue (Lonsdale), Lonsdale, Providence County, RI

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Blackstone Canal, Front Street & Lonsdale Avenue (Lonsdale), Lonsdale, Providence County, RI

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Summary

Significance: As one of the region's first long-distance transportation systems, the Blackstone Canal was one of the waterways that helped to spawn the industrial development that took place in the Blackstone Valley in the mid-nineteenth century.
Survey number: HAER RI-9
Building/structure dates: 1828 Initial Construction

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1969 - 1980
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Contributors

Historic American Engineering Record, creator
Blackstone Canal Company
Clement, Daniel, transmitter
Boucher, Jack, photographer
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