Samuel Slater

By: Austin Hill, Noah Sias

Cotton Mill

Slater, with funding from Providence inventors and assistance from skilled local artisans, built the first successful, Water-Powered textile mill in Pawtucket in 1793.

Slater was a British Mechanic. Only WOMEN could work in the Mill.

Slatersville

Slatersville was built by, Samuel Slater and his brother, John in 1803. Located on the Rhode Island BranchRiver.

Slatersville included the Cotton Mill, two tenement houses for the workers.

Samuel Slater,Known as the, Father of the American Industrial Revolution.

Major battles of The American Revolution: Trenton, Bunker Hill, Lexington and Concord.

The Battles of The American Revolution.

The Battles of Lexington and Concord Lexington and Concord Massachusetts 5/10/1775 The Siege of Fort Ticonderoga Fort Ticonderoga, New York 5/27/1775 The Battle of Chelsea Creek Suffolk County, Massachusetts 6/16/1775 The Battle of Bunker (Breeds) Hill Charlestown, Massachusetts 12/31/1775 The Battle of Quebec Quebec City, Province of Quebec 8/27/1776 The Battle of Long Island (Brooklyn Heights) Long Island, New York 10/28/1776 The Battle of White Plains White Plains, New York 11/16/1776 The Battle of Fort Washington Washington Heights, Manhattan, New York 12/26/1776 The Battle of Trenton Trenton, New Jersey 1/3/1777 The Battle of Princeton Princeton, New Jersy 8/6/1777 The Battle of Oriskany Oriskany, New York 8/16/1777 The Battle of Bennington Bennington, New York 9/11/1777 The Battle of Brandywine Near Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania 9/19/1777 The Battle of Saratoga (Freeman's Farm) Saratoga County, New York 10/4/1777 The Battle of Germantown Germantown, Pennsylvania 10/7/1777 The Battle of Saratoga (Bemis Heights) Saratoga County, New York 6/28/1778 The Battle of Monmouth Monmouth, New Jersey 12/29/1778 The Capture of Savannah Savannah, Georgia 3/29/1780 The Siege of Charleston Charleston, South Carolina 8/16/1780 The Battle of Camden North of Camden, South Carolina 10/7/1780 The Battle of King's Mountain Near Blackburn, SC and King's Mountain, NC 1/17/1781 The Battle of Cowpens Cowpens, South Carolina 3/15/1781 The Battle of Guilford Courthouse Guilford Courthouse, North Carolina 9/8/1781 The Battle of Eutaw Springs Near present-day Eutawville, South Carolina 10/9/1781 The Battle of Yorktown Yorktown, Virginia

Textiles

Slater claimed he could improve the way American textiles were manufactured.

The raw cotton was sent out to local woman for cleaning before it came to the mill for carding

Arrival

Slater emigrated secretly to America by disguising himself as a farmer in 1789. In hopes of making his fortune in American's infant textile industry.

Arrived in New York City, finding a position in New York Manufacturing.

Sources

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