The Wampanoag spoke Massachusett, a language they shared with the Massachusett and Pawtucket Indians to the north. |
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Today, professional baseball is offered by the Pawtucket Red Sox, the AAA affiliate of the Boston Red Sox, which plays in nearby Pawtucket. |
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Pawtucket was an early and important center of cotton textiles during the American Industrial Revolution. |
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Both men and women with weaving skills emigrated, and took the knowledge to their new homes in New England, to places like Pawtucket and Lowell. |
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Boston brought knuckleballer Steven Wright up from Pawtucket and had spare outfielder Corey Brown designated for assignment. |
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Other manufacturers continued, transforming Pawtucket into a center for textiles, iron working, and other products. |
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Later in the 20th Century, Pawtucket lost much of its architectural heritage to the wrecking ball, including the Leroy Theatre. |
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But unlike numerous older mill towns in the region, Pawtucket retained much of its industrial base. |
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Lapane, a psychologist at Memorial Hospital of Rhode Island in Pawtucket, and her colleagues. |
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Hasbro, one of the world's largest manufacturers of toys and games, is headquartered in Pawtucket. |
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Pawtucket was the fourth most populous of Rhode Island's 39 cities and towns. |
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Pawtucket is also one of the few areas of the United States with a significant Liberian population, mostly refugees from Charles Taylor's regime. |
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Pawtucket has a history of professional baseball dating back to 1892, including the Pawtucket Indians. |
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Slater also brought the Sunday School system from his native England to his textile factory at Pawtucket. |
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Hasbro, a Fortune 1000 toy and game making company, is headquartered in Pawtucket. |
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In 1790, Samuel Slater opened the first successful water powered cotton mill in America, Slater Mill, at Pawtucket Falls. |
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Providence is also home to some of toy manufacturer Hasbro's business operations, although their headquarters are in Pawtucket. |
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The Pawtucket region was said to have been one of the most populous places in New England prior to the arrival of European settlers. |
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Left-hander Franklin Morales, who is on the 15-day disabled list with a left pectoralis strain, will continue his rehab assignment with Pawtucket this weekend. |
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Technological developments and achievements from the Manufactory led to the development of more advanced cotton mills, including Slater Mill in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. |
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In 1793, Slater and Brown opened their first factory in Pawtucket. |
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Pawtucket borders Providence, Rhode Island and the state of Massachusetts. |
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The closest Amtrak station to Pawtucket is Providence Station. |
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It then continues into Rhode Island, where it flows through Woonsocket, Cumberland, Lincoln, Central Falls, and Pawtucket, where the river then reaches Pawtucket Falls. |
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At the top of the falls is the Pawtucket Dam, designed to turn the upper Merrimack into a millpond, diverted through Lowell's extensive canal system. |
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She was the majority member of the Pawtucket Assembly Order of the Rainbow for Girls and a member of the Natick Chapter of the Order of the Beauseant. |
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Hasbro, based in Pawtucket, has been licensing many of its brands. |
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In that quiet period between Christmas and New Year's Day, I learned that James Peter McNamee had passed away in his Sleep Christmas Eve in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. |
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Bristol, Burrillville, Central Falls, Coventry, Cumberland, Lincoln, Pawtucket, Providence, Slatersville, Valley Falls, West Warwick, Westerly, Woonsocket. |
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