Woonsocket, RI Townhome for Sale

Nipmuc, Wampanoag and Narragansett Native Americans inhabited the land where Woonsocket is today until European settlers arrived in the 1660s. It remained a small farming town until the early 1800s, when the Social Manufacturing Company built the water-powered textile mill that sparked the city’s industrialization. The textile milling industry waned by the 1920s, collapsing completely during the Great Depression in the ‘30s. Woonsocket’s economy didn’t recover until textile production resumed as part of the war effort over the course of World War II. Today, Woonsocket is home to CVS Health’s corporate headquarters and Landmark Medical Center, two big local employers. And many of the old mill buildings still standing along the Blackstone River are turning into office buildings, condos and apartments. “We encourage any type of business, small or large, to set up shop here. Being an old industrial city, we have the large buildings ready for them,” says Emily Haining-Sheehan, the City of Woonsocket’s Interim Business Growth & Recovery Administrator. But Woonsocket doesn’t appeal to entrepreneurs or business owners alone. Homebuyers flock here for the urban yet small-town atmosphere,