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| | Preserve America Community: Woonsocket, Rhode Island |
 | | Preserve America is a White House initiative in cooperation with the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation; the U.S. Departments of Defense, Interior, Agriculture, Commerce, Housing and Urban Development, Transportation, and Education; the National Endowment for the Humanities; the President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities; and the President's Council on Environmental Quality. |
 | | Woonsocket (43,224) was first settled in the late 17th century near Woonsocket Falls, where the Blackstone River flows over the waterway's largest falls. |
 | | The story of these immigrants is told at the Rhode Island Historical Society's Museum of Work and Culture, a heritage tourism attraction that draws more than 15,000 visitors annually. |
| www.preserveamerica.gov /6-25-04PAcommunity-woonsocketRI.html (241 words) |
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