(WJAR) — In the heart of Woonsocket, the story of Rhode Island’s industrial rise is still alive at the Museum of Work and Culture.
Housed inside the former Barnai Worsted Company mill on South Main Street, the museum takes visitors back to the late 1800s and early 1900s, when thousands of French-Canadian immigrants crossed the border from Quebec to work in the booming textile mills of the Blackstone Valley.
“The museum tells a very unique and very important part of Rhode Island history,” said Senior Director Anne Conway…