Blackstone Canal

mysteriously abandoned again in 1702. Worcester would not permanently be settled until 1722, and would be later be declared a city in 1848 (Arsenault). Blackstone Canal, engineered by Benjamin Wright in 1828, was the first big technological boost the city would see. Along its banks, factories began springing up from Worcester to Providence. The amazement of the canal was, unfortunately, overshadowed by the invention of the railroad in 1832. Travelling before trains was no easy task for the…