America’s first factory strike happened just 30 years after America’s first successful textile mill started churning out cotton cloth in Pawtucket, R.I....
Chicken family style evolved in Northern Rhode Island during the Great Depression, and even today people will drive for miles and wait...
During the 150 years before the American Revolution, a series of aristocrats known as the River Gods ruled the Connecticut River Valley....
Over the course of New England history many thousands of workers were killed on the job. Some, like Vermont quarry workers, died...
Eli Terry masterminded many of the time pieces that exist today, and in the process he helped ignite America’s industrial revolution. His...
Sylvester Graham was such a severe critic of meat and refined flour that he provoked a near-riot in 1837 among Boston’s bakers...