| It is operated as a museum dedicated to preserving the history of Samuel Slater and his contribution to American industry. |
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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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| Hannah Slater died in 1812 from complications of childbirth, leaving Samuel Slater with six young children to raise. |
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| Samuel Slater was born in Belper, Derbyshire, England, on June 9, 1768, the fifth son of a farming family of eight children. |
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| Samuel Slater, the mill's founder, apprenticed as a young man in Belper, England with industrialist Jedediah Strutt. |
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| This system of mills, dams and villages was developed by John and Samuel Slater, and became known as the Rhode Island System. |
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| He refused to go outside his family to hire managers and, after 1829, he made his sons partners in the new umbrella firm of Samuel Slater and Sons. |
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