Blackstone Canal, Front Street & Lonsdale Avenue (Lonsdale), Lonsdale, Providence County, RI
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
Tags
Date
1969 - 1980
Contributors
Historic American Engineering Record, creator
Blackstone Canal Company
Clement, Daniel, transmitter
Boucher, Jack, photographer
Location
Lonsdale, 41.88816, -71.47743
Source
Library of Congress
Copyright info
No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html