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It’s older than the railroads that killed it
A thousand acres of woods, water, and weathered stone sit along the Blackstone River in Uxbridge, Massachusetts, and most people have never heard of it.
Blackstone River and Canal Heritage State Park preserves one of the most important industrial corridors in American history, the valley where factory life in this country began.
Admission is free, parking is free, and the trails run straight into a past that still shows in the stonework.
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The river that dropped 450 feet and changed everything
The Blackstone River runs 46 miles from Worcester, Massachusetts, to Providence, Rhode Island, and it drops about 450 feet in elevation the whole way down…