Milling Machines

Historical marker location:

67 Roosevelt Ave, Pawtucket, Rhode Island

( Marker is on Slater Street just east of Roosevelt Avenue, on the left when traveling west.)

Blackstone River Valley National Historical Park, Slater Mill Historic Site.

The USS Saratoga, the first aircraft carrier to be commissioned in the United States Navy, was built in Rhode Island at the Fore River Shipyard in 1927.