Historical Marker
Touro Synagogue
Historical marker location:
72 Touro Street, Newport, Rhode Island
( Marker is at the intersection of Touro Street and Division Street, on the left when traveling east on Touro Street.)
National Historic Site.
The Industrial Revolution started in Rhode Island in the late 1700s with the construction of Samuel Slater's cotton-spinning mill in Pawtucket, which became the first successful water-powered cotton mill in the United States.