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Woonsocket (/ w ʊ n ˈ s ɒ k ɪ t, w ə n-/ ⓘ wuun-SOK-it, wən-), is a city in Providence County, Rhode Island, United States. The population was 43,240 at the 2020 census, making it the sixth largest city in the state.
Woonsocket, city, Providence county, northern Rhode Island, U.S., on the Blackstone River just south of the Massachusetts border. The first European occupation of the site was made by Richard Arnold, who built a sawmill in 1666; his brother John built a house there in 1695.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Woonsocket, RI was the first, established in 1888. The other, Woonsocket, SD, was named by its superintendent of railroads who had originally come from Woonsocket, RI. The first inhabitants of what is today the city of Woonsocket were Eastland woodland Indians - mainly Nipmucs, Wampanoaags and Narragansetts.
It is home to Landmark Medical Center, the Museum of Work and Culture, and the American-French Genealogical Society. Woonsocket, is a city in Providence County, Rhode Island, United States. The population was 43,240 at the 2020 census, making it the sixth largest city in the state.
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Welcome to Woonsocket! Located in northeastern Rhode Island, Woonsocket is a city with a rich and varied past. A sleepy farming community until the 1800's, Woonsocket became one of the nineteenth century's great industrial centers.
Woonsocket History. Since the first sawmill was built near Woonsocket Falls in the 1660's, Woonsocket's history has been inseparably tied to its location on the Blackstone River: Growth of an Industrial City - Learn how Woonsocket became one of the country's great textile manufacturing centers.
