What of the future? There is nothing to forbid the hope that Pawtucket will win larger prosperity. She has an intelligent population trained to habits of industry. She has produced inventions in the past and can count on others in the future. She has large capital and skilful manufacturers to suggest how it can best be utilized. She has energetic churches and good schools. She has scores of appliances to make labor effective. She has facilities for obtaining raw materials and for shipping abroad the fruits of her toil and skill and the prestige of past success encourages to new enterprises. About twenty six years ago the Rev Dr Taft overtaking the writer said, ‘The sight of yonder horse cars wakes some reminiscences. Forty years ago I came to this place and was one day passing up this street. I found a pair of bars obstructing my path about where Exchange Street now cuts North Main Street I took them down and went up a cart track to the chocolate mill in Central Falls. At that time people were saying’ he continued, ‘that Pawtucket had attained its growth. All the water power had been used up and no increase of population could be looked for, But the town has kept on growing for forty years and I know not why it may not grow equally rapidly for forty years to come.’ reverend massena goodrich ‘pawtucket and the slater centennial,’ 1890
Existing conditions report Pawtucket downtown design plan
City of Pawtucket Planning Department 9 July 2010
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