Globe Village, Rhode Island

Globe Village is a village in Woonsocket, Rhode Island in the area southeast of the Woonsocket Falls on the Blackstone River.

The village is named after the Globe Mill located within it. Thomas Arnold, Thomas Paine and Marcel Shove started the Globe Manufacturing Company in 1827 which went bankrupt two years later, and was acquired by George Ballou in 1864 who built a new, state of the art textile mill in 1873. The Social Manufacturing Company bought Ballou's complex after his death, and the company operated the mill until "it was acquired by the Manville-Jenckes Company in the early 1900's. Manville-Jenckes operated the mill until 1927 when it was closed. The mill buildings were demolished in the 1940's but employee housing on Front and Lincoln Street still remains." [http://www.woonsocket.org/village.htm] Globe Park remains a popular recreation area.

References and external links

* [http://www.woonsocket.org/village.htm Woonsocket Village info]
*History of Providence County Rhode Island edited by Richard M. Bayles and published by W. W. Peston & Co., New York, 1891
*Images of America - Woonsocket written by Robert R. Bellerose and published by Arcadia Publishing, Dover, NH, 1997.
*Old Woonsocket - erastus & doc written by Alton Pickering Thomas, MD and published by Mowbray Company of Providence, RI in 1973.
*Statewide Historic Preservation Report for Woonsocket, Rhode Island published by the Rhode Island Historic Preservation Commission in September, 1976.
*Woonsocket, Rhode Island - A Centennial History 1888 - 1988 published by the Woonsocket Centennial Committee in 1988.
*Woonsocket - Highlights of History 1800-1976 written by Alton Pickering Thomas, MD and published by the Woonsocket Opera House Society in 1973.