Bernon, Rhode Island

Bernon (originally Danville) is a village in Woonsocket, Rhode Island founded in 1827 by the Russell Manufacturing Company which built a stone mill in the area.

In 1832 Sullivan Dorr and Crawford Allen of Providence bought the Russell Manufacturing Company and formed the Woonsocket Mill Company and renamed the village Bernon. In 1833, Dorr and Allen built the Bernon Mill, a beautiful building. Eventually, the site became the property of the Blackstone Valley Gas and Electric.

References and external links

* [http://www.woonsocket.org/village.htm Woonsocket Village info]
*History of Providence County Rhode Island edited by Richard M. Bayles and published by W. W. Peston & Co., New York, 1891
*Images of America - Woonsocket written by Robert R. Bellerose and published by Arcadia Publishing, Dover, NH, 1997.
*Old Woonsocket - erastus & doc written by Alton Pickering Thomas, MD and published by Mowbray Company of Providence, RI in 1973.
*Statewide Historic Preservation Report for Woonsocket, Rhode Island published by the Rhode Island Historic Preservation Commission in September, 1976.
*Woonsocket, Rhode Island - A Centennial History 1888 - 1988 published by the Woonsocket Centennial Committee in 1988.
*Woonsocket - Highlights of History 1800-1976 written by Alton Pickering Thomas, MD and published by the Woonsocket Opera House Society in 1973.