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The towpath parallels the canal nearly four miles north to the Captain Wilbur Kelly house at Old Ashton in Lincoln before crossing the river again at Pray's Wading Place. Riders then continue north, re-crossing the river at Albion Village. Passing through another mill village at Manville, the path ends temporarily in the new playing fields of Woonsocket's Hamlet Village at Davison Street.

While the feel and look of the Blackstone River State Park, stitching together the river banks and the abutting boundaries of Cumberland and Lincoln, is definitely rural and naturalistic, the history of the land and waters making up the park is thoroughly industrial. At various points in the twelve-mile trek, one can see the remains of the area's industrial past peek out from beneath the foliage and reflect in the waters. Mill dams, which once held back the river in order to power machinery, still mark the river's drop at four locations. Sluices and power trenches, canal mile-stones, ground level, protruding shapes of cellar holes of former worker tenements, along with recycled mills now used as apartments and small businesses dot the path. The observant visitor is challenged to discover the legacy layers of this landscape of industry.

Within its bounds, the recorded history of the Park dates back to the Indian uprising of King Philip's War (1675-1676); sites in the middle portion of the Park relate to the nearby Lincoln industry of the mining and processing of limestone for making plaster and mortar. But the main chapter of its history pertains to the various eras of the textile story begun in Pawtucket with Providence merchant, Moses Brown and English millwright, Samuel Slater in 1790 that continue to the final stages of that industry in this area in the 1930s to the 1950s.

About this time, however, he began an interest in the growing textile industry, begun two decades earlier by another Brown family group, Amy and Brown with Samuel Slater in Pawtucket. After an unpropitious start in a textile venture in North Providence in 1816, Kelly returned to the sea trade with Brown and Ives, but by 1823 he was ready for another attempt in textiles. This time, he purchased a closed mill along the Blackstone in what became the Old Ashton/Quinnville neighborhood of Lincoln. Kelly was aware of the plans to build the Blackstone Canal through his site and anticipated it would reawaken the silent factory. The project began to connect the inland market town of Worcester, Massachusetts with the port of Providence by constructing a canal with 48 lift locks to pass boats up and down the 438 foot descent of the Blackstone River.

Kelly eventually sold his little mill to Brown and Ives who made it their Upper Mill at Ashton, and he became their real estate agent for buying up some four miles of river bank from Ashton to Lonsdale. His purchases led them over time to establish four manufacturing villages on the land he bought and to build a textile empire which lasted 100 years. He became a consignment agent for canal cargoes and the on-site manager of the building of their first village of Lonsdale with mills, housing, a church, a company, store and school in the mid 1830s. He built a home, now the museum, in Old Ashton in 1835 to serve as the superintendent's cottage for the Upper Mill and to manage the 17 acre farm that served to provide some of the food needs for the mill workers, whose houses comprised the early village in Lincoln, now Quinnville.

Eventually, that village was eclipsed by the new Ashton mill and attendant village built across the Blackstone River in 1867 to take advantage of the convenience of the Providence and Worcester Railroad which had been brought through the neighborhood on the Cumberland side of the river, putting the Blackstone Canal out of business.

The nineteenth century African American population in Blackford County was minimal. In 1840 the federal census indicated a total of thirteen free people of color residing in the county distributed as follows: Washington Township, population 2; Licking Township, population 1; and Harrison Township, population 10. The ten individuals in Harrison Township lived in a single household headed by Jefferson Hill. The household included 2 males under 10; 3 males 10 to 23; 1 male 36-52; 2 females 10 to 23; 1 female 24 to 35; and 1 female 55 to 99.

When Boone County was formed in 1830, it had 2 free persons of color, according to its 1830 census. One of the known early settlers was Woody (or Moody) Gilliam (Gillum) who came from Virginia. Gilliam purchased a total of 160 acres of land two miles north of Big Springs in Marion Township in about 1836, after a brief stay in Rush County, Indiana. The Gilliam surname is also associated with the historic Roberts Settlement in nearby Hamilton County.

The African American settlement associated with the village of Memphis was known as Africa. Memphis was laid out in 1852 at the crossing of Blue Lick Road and the railroad tracks. A contemporary informant stated that historically major components of commerce in the town included mills, cooperages and the manufacture of staves. It was indicated that African Americans were not employed in those industries but worked instead as farm laborers. Unfortunately the microfilm for Union Township is almost illegible. making it difficult to extract much information given limitations of time. The index to the 1870 census lists 20 households headed by African Americans and 1 white household with African American members. Occupations are almost exclusively laborer or farm laborer. The nativity of black residents conforms to that of Clark County in general. Kentucky leads as place of birth with Indiana a close second. Other states include Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama and Texas. Family names include Scott, Montgomery, Hansberry, Helm, Tyler, Blakemore, Adams Bibb, Jefferson, Ball and Blakey.

In addition to labor, various censuses also inventory an interesting range of skilled trades among the black residents of Charlestown that included blacksmith, miller, plasterer, carpenter, cabinet maker, shoemaker, brick molder, tailor, teamster, river pilot, boatman, wagon maker, miniature painter and weaver. Kentucky and Indiana are the primary places of birth.

The county was formed in 1830. According to the 1830 census, there was one free person of color that year; by the 1840 census that number had increased to 9. As of 1850, however, there was only one black landowner, whose real estate was valued at $200. Some of the early settlers included the Adams and Bria families from Pennsylvania and the Copleys from North Carolina, who moved on to Cass County, Michigan by 1860. According to the 1870 census, the Lewis family from Virginia, the Carter family from Alabama and the Cambridge family from Kentucky had settled within the county.

The History of Knox and Daviess County, Indiana, discusses Eli Hawkins, a white slave owner bringing enslaved people from South Carolina to Indiana in 1806. Two of the people, Isaac and Jake, were passed on to Catherine Hawkins as her inheritance. Later, through the efforts of attorney Amory C. Kinney, the men were legally set free. It appears that they kept the last name Hawkins and stayed in the area. There is more to the story that needs investigation.

By 1820 a number of free blacks were living in Dearborn County. A man named Spencer Curtis had a large family and owned a prosperous farm in Manchester Township. His children intermarried with families named David and Curtis. Court records also show that free African Americans lived in Dearborn County quite early. An 1829 court case was filed by Thomas Record, who sued Zerah Tousey of Boone County, Kentucky, and William Record of Dearborn County, alleging that they had kidnapped him in 1812 and taken him to Kentucky, where he was held as a slave for many years. He sued for $15,000. Later Thomas Record purportedly immigrated to Liberia. And, although there is no record showing that he actually went to Liberia, there is a letter that was written to the federal government by Jesse Holman requesting that Record and his family receive help to make the journey. In addition, at about the time that he was to have left the country, he disappears from the census.

Decatur County was organized in 1822 and about the same time, a free black man from Kentucky named Joseph Snelling purchased 56 acres of land in Fugit Township located in the northeastern corner of Decatur County. Fugit Township was the area in the county that was settled earliest. This area became the beginning of a large free black community known as the Snelling Settlement. Joseph Snelling is listed in the 1830 census as a head of household with seven children between the ages of 10 and 24; however, no other adult was included.

William Trail was a notable early presence in the area that became Fayette County. In 1814, Trail ran away from slavery in South Carolina and arrived in the Whitewater River Valley area before Indiana statehood. Trail fought off slave catchers both physically and in the courts and arranged to purchase his freedom. He married a free woman of color, Sarah Wadkins, who had migrated from Virginia to the Beech settlement in Rush County. They lived on a 25-acre farm located east of Connersville for a few years before relocating with their growing family to Henry County where they had purchased 160 acres of land.

Another notable African American farmer in Fayette County was James/John Van Horn. Van Horn escaped slavery in Kentucky (c. 1826) and took refuge in Rush County eventually relocating to Fayette County. Working as a teamster he was able to save enough money to purchase his freedom. In 1840 he entered 160 acres of land in Blackford County. Van Horn married Nancy Foster of Ohio in 1842. After experiencing racial hostility in Blackford County he traded the tract for eighty acres in Fayette County and returned to the area in 1854. In time he added to his holdings accumulating 121 acres on Alquina Road east of Connersville. He constructed a substantial farmstead that stands today (637 E Alquina Road). The Van Horns are buried in the nearby cemetery that surrounds the Village Creek Church (CR 150 S). [This church is identified in the Fayette County Interim Report.] 2b1af7f3a8