The historical society notes that Uxbridge Massachusetts is the "Heart of The Blackstone Valley" and is known as "the Cradle of the Industrial Revolution".
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16 Facts About Uxbridge Massachusetts
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Uxbridge Massachusetts was a prominent Textile center in the American Industrial Revolution.
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Brister Pierce, formerly a slave in Uxbridge Massachusetts, was a signer of an 1835 petition to Congress demanding abolition of slavery and the slave trade in the District of Columbia.
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Uxbridge Massachusetts Academy became a prestigious New England prep school.
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Uxbridge Massachusetts reached a peak of over twenty different industrial mills.
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North Uxbridge Massachusetts housed Clapp's 1810 cotton mill, Chandler Taft's and Richard Sayles' Rivulet Mill, the granite quarry, and Rogerson's village.
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Uxbridge Massachusetts manufactured US Army uniforms for the Civil War, World War I, World War II, the nurse corps, and the first Air Force dress uniforms, dubbed "Uxbridge Blue".
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Time magazine covered Uxbridge Massachusetts Worsted's proposed buyout to be the top US woolen company.
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Uxbridge Massachusetts has a Board of Selectmen and town meeting government.
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Uxbridge Massachusetts is a member of one of the thirteen towns of the Blackstone Valley Regional Vocational School District.
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Abby Kelley Foster, a member of the Uxbridge Friend's Meeting, led Susan B Anthony and Lucy Stone to abolitionism.
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Uxbridge Massachusetts's became the foremost lecturer and fundraiser for the American anti-slavery society of which fellow Quaker meetinghouse member Effingham Capron became Vice President.
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Uxbridge Massachusetts Academy was a sought after New England Prep School from 1818.
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Uxbridge Massachusetts was the overnight stopping point, and had close mercantile ties to Providence.
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Ezra Taft Benson ran a hotel in Uxbridge Massachusetts, married two sisters from Northbridge, LDS Apostle, Missionary to the Hawaiian Islands, and Utah Territorial Legislator.
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Uxbridge Massachusetts fought in the Spanish–American War and his brother Willard Bartlett was Chief Justice of the New York Court of Appeals.
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