Examples of Blackstone Valley in the following topics:
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- Housed in a former fulling mill near the Pawtucket Falls of the Blackstone River, Almy & Brown, as the company was to be called, set about to make and sell cloth spun.
- Slater's Mill was established in the Blackstone Valley, which became one of the earliest industrialized regions in the United States.
- At its peak, over 1,000 mills operated in this valley.
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- Slater's Mill was established in the Blackstone Valley, which became one of the earliest industrialized regions in the United States.
- At its peak, more than 1,000 mills operated in this valley.
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- The regions around mill towns became manufacturing powerhouses along rivers like the Housatonic River, Quinebaug River, Shetucket River, Blackstone River, Merrimack River, Nashua River, Cochecho River, Saco River, Androscoggin River, Kennebec River, and Winooski River.
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- General George Washington and his army made camp at Valley Forge from December 1777 to June 1778 to protect Pennsylvania from the British.
- Conditions at Valley Forge were extremely bleak.
- Approximately 500 women spent the winter at Valley Forge.
- A celebration of the alliance pact was
organized in Valley Forge on May 6, 1778.
- Washington's troops endured harsh conditions at Valley Forge in the winter of 1777-78.
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- Famous range wars included the Lincoln County War, the Pleasant Valley War, the Mason County War, and the Johnson County Range War.
- The Pleasant Valley War was commonly thought to be an Arizona sheep war between two feuding families, the cattle-herding Grahams and the sheep-herding Tewksburys.
- However, eyewitness reports show that sheep were not brought into Pleasant Valley until 1885, two years after the feuding between the Tewksbury and Graham factions began.
- Of all the feuds that have taken place throughout American history, the Pleasant Valley War was the most costly, resulting in an almost complete annihilation of the two families involved.
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- Famous range wars included the Lincoln County War, the Pleasant Valley War, the Mason County War, and the Johnson County Range War, and sometimes were fought between local residents and gunmen hired by absentee landowners.
- The Pleasant Valley War, sometimes called the "Tonto Basin Feud," "Tonto Basin War," or "Tewksbury-Graham Feud," was a range war fought in Pleasant Valley, Arizona, in 1882 to 1892.
- Pleasant Valley is located in Gila County, Arizona, but many of the events related to this feud took place in neighboring Apache and Navajo counties.
- The Pleasant Valley War had the highest number of fatalities of such civilian conflicts in U.S. history, with an estimated total of 35 to 50 deaths, and the near annihilation of the males of the two feuding families.
- The Pleasant Valley War was one of the deadliest and well-known range wars.
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- Although largely observed in New Amsterdam and the Hudson River Valley, the terms of surrender were immediately violated by the English along the Delaware River, where pillaging, looting, and arson were undertaken under the orders of English Colonel Richard Carr who had been dispatched to secure the valley.
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- In 1903, Roosevelt toured the Yosemite Valley with John Muir, who had a very different view of conservation, and tried to minimize commercial use of water resources and forests.
- Working through the Sierra Club, Muir succeeded in having Congress transfer the Mariposa Grove and Yosemite Valley to the federal government by 1905.
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- Wagon trails were cleared further and further west, eventually reaching all the way to the Willamette Valley in Oregon.
- In 1846, the Barlow Road was completed around Mount Hood, providing a rough but completely passable wagon trail from the Missouri river to the Willamette Valley: about 2,000 miles.
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- In New York's Hudson Valley, however, the Dutch established the patroon system, which resembled a feudal aristocracy governing vast land grants.
- Munsee inhabited the Highlands, Hudson Valley, and northern New Jersey, while Minquas, also known as the Susquehannocks, lived west of the Zuyd River along and beyond the Susquehanna River.