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Valley Queen Mill
U.S. National Register of Historic Places

Valley Queen Mill
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Location	West Warwick, Rhode Island
Coordinates	41°42′52″N 71°30′44″W / 41.71444°N 71.51222°W / 41.71444; -71.51222
Area	3.4 acres (1.4 ha)
Built	1834
Architect	Thomas Peck & Stephen Norton, D.M. Thompson
NRHP reference No.	84001880
Added to NRHP	January 19, 1984

The Valley Queen Mill is an historic mill at 200 Providence Street in West Warwick, Rhode Island.

It is a five-story L-shaped stone building built in 1834 by the Greene Company. The mill is the oldest of the three mill buildings in the area. It originally operated as a cotton factory, producing coarse cotton cloths under the Greene Company name.

In 1888, B.B.& R. Knight Company, the textile giant that made Fruit of the Loom products, purchased the Valley Queen Mill, and enlarged the plant. B.B &.R. Knight was a complete textile operation with combing, spinning and weaving facilities.

On January 23, 1922, the workers at the Valley Queen Mill struck, following the lead of their neighboring workers at the Royal Mill, who walked out in response to an attempted 20% wage cut. Soon the entire Pawtuxet River Valley was shut down, the strike spread and became the 1922 New England Textile Strike.

In 1931, the McIver Family, which owned The Original Bradford Soap Works, bought the Valley Queen Mill after B.B. & R Knight Company went bankrupt. In the 1960s, the Howland Family took over the business. Under the leadership of the Howland family, today Bradford Soap Works manufactures high quality bar soaps and soap bases in the Valley Queen Mill building.

The mill was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.

References

^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. January 23, 2007.
^ "NRHP nomination for Valley Queen Mill" (PDF). Rhode Island Preservation. Retrieved 2014-08-15.
"Mills Close in Textile Strike:
The Boston Globe, 24 Jan 1922, Tue · Page 6". Newspapers.com. 24 Jan 1922. Archived from the original on 2023-07-19. Retrieved 2023-07-19.
National Register of Historic Places Inventory (PDF). November 14, 1983. p. 9.

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