Anthony

Historic Mill Village devoted to the making of cotton cloth, was settled about 1805 when William and Richard Anthony erected a mill here. In 1811 another mill was built, and, in 1874, a yet larger one by the Coventry Manufacturing Company. [1]

1. Workers of the Federal Writers' Program of the Works Progress Administration for the State of Rhode Island, Rhode Island: A Guide to the Smallest State, American Guide Series, Riverside Press, Cambridge, Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1937.

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Street Names: Anthony Street, Laurel Avenue, Route 117, Route 33, Saint Vincent De Paul Street, Union Street, Washington Secondary Trail, Washington Street