Ashton Mill Village

Ashton Village Row and Tenement Housing

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A great example of the Rhode Island System of Manufacturing is shown in the Ashton Mill Village. Built next to the Ashton Mill, the village spreads up the hill to the church and school. Management housing and the company store were also located at the top of the hill. Toward the mill, there were three different types of worker housing available. There were townhouses that held 2 families, tenement houses that held 4 families and row houses that were dormitory style for single people. Aside from the original company store, all the buildings remain from this late 1800s mill village. In the Rhode Island System of Manufacturing, the mothers worked the machines, the children changed the spindles and the fathers maintained the machines and worked the farm.