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PROJECT CONSULTANTS & DESCENDANTS

MICHAEL ABBOTT, AIA, CNU-A- Northeast Collaborative Architects

ZACH ALLEN (deceased- Descendant of John & Ruth Slater

CHUCK ARNING - Park Ranger (retired), Blackstone River Valley National Historical Park

RAY BACON - Historian of Woonsocket, Rhode Island

ROBERT BILLINGTON, Ph.D. - Executive Director, Blackstone Valley Tourism Council

WAYNE CABRAL - Director of Operations, Clouds Hill Victorian House Museum, Warwick, RI

NATALIE CARTER - Director of Operations, Blackstone Valley Tourism Council

CHARLOTTE CARRINGTON-FARMER - History Prof., Roger Williams University, native of the Derbyshire region of England

ANNE CONWAY - Executive Director, Museum of Work & Culture, Woonsocket, RI

PATRICK CROWLEY - Labor historian, Secretary/Treasurer of Rhode Island AFL-CIO, author of Revisiting Saylesville: A Deeper Exploration of the Saylesville Massacre of 1934 

BRUCE CURLISS - Wisdom Keeper, Hassanamisco Nipmuc Band, Grafton, MA, Chairman of Blackstone Watershed Council

MARK DENNEN, CPG - Supervising Environmental Scientist, Office of Land Revitalization and Sustainable Materials Management, Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management

ADRIAN FARMER - Coordinator, Derwent Valley Mills World Heritage Site, U.K.

GRAY FITZSIMONS, Ph.D. - History Professor, UMASS Lowell

AKEIA DE BARROS GOMES, Ph.D. -  William E. Cook Vice President, American Institute for Maritime Studies Director, Frank C. Munson Institute of American Maritime History, Mystic Seaport Museum 

RICHARD GRAF -  Co-Developer of Slatersville Mill property, RE: Investments (former company), Wellesley, MA

RICHARD GREENWOOD, Ph.D. (deceased) -  Fmr. Deputy Director, Rhode Island Historical Preservation and Heritage Commission

C. MORGAN GREFE, Ph.D. -  Executive Director, Rhode Island Historical Society

STEPHANIE HITCHCOCK -  Historic Researcher, Belper, England, Co-Author, Samuel Slater: Hero or Traitor?

JAMES R. HOOPER IV & FRED HOOPER -  Descendants of James Ripley Hooper, Slatersville owner (1900-1915)

CHERYLL TONEY HOLLEY -  Sunskq, Hassanamisco Nipmuc Band, Grafton, MA

ANNE D. HOLST - Descendant of John & Ruth Slater and Owner of Clouds Hill Victorian House Museum, Warwick, RI

RICHARD HOWE -  Author and Blogger, Creator of Voices from Lowell & Beyond, Founder of Lowell Walks, Register of Deeds of the Middlesex Northern District since 1995.​​  Lowell, MA

JOHN PLIMPTON KENDALL - Son of Henry Plimpton Kendall, Slatersville Owner (1915-1956)

KEVIN KLYBERG - Park Ranger, Blackstone River Valley National Historical Park

DAVID MACAULAY -  Author/Illustrator of Mill, Cathedral and The Way Things Work

IRENE NEBIKER -  Historian of North Smithfield, RI

JOHN PARRILLO, Ph.D. - History Professor, Salve Regina University and formerly Roger Williams University

MARY SMEDLEY (deceased) -  Historian of Belper, England

ART SOLOMON -  DSF Advisors (fmr. Co.), Waltham, MA & financier in Slatersville Mill’s restoration​

DAVID STEIN -  Co-Developer of Slatersville Mill property, RE: Investments (former company), Wellesley, MA

BARBARA M. TUCKER, Ph.D. -  History Prof., Eastern State CT University; Author, Samuel Slater & the Origins of the American Textile Industry, 1790-1860 and Industrializing Antebellum America: The Rise of Manufacturing Entrepreneurs in the Early Republic.​

GEORGE WATERMAN III -  Descendant of John & Ruth Slater & Provider of documents from within the Slater family that were never-before-seen by historians.

VIVIAN ZOE -  Museum Director (retired), Slater Memorial Museum at Norwich Free Academy, Norwich, CT

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