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was named after the Globe Mill located within it. Thomas Arnold, Thomas Paine and Marcel Shove started the Globe
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Woonsocket – Highlights of
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Woonsocket – erastus & doc written by Alton Pickering Thomas, MD and published by Mowbray Company of Providence, RI in 1973.
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History of
Providence County Rhode Island edited by Richard M. Bayles and published by W. W. Peston & Co., New York, 1891
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Woonsocket, Rhode Island – A Centennial History 1888 - 1988 published by the Woonsocket Centennial Committee in 1988.
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