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Samuel Slater became involved in the textile industry at the age of 14 and completed a seven year long apprenticeship in the “art of cotton spinning.” He left his home country of England in 1789, and came to Pawtucket to start his own cotton spinning business. In 1812, he moved his mills north, to Webster, Massachusetts, named for his friend, Sen. Daniel Webster.
?Slater was able to create an industrial town centered on cotton and woolen manufacturing. Slater would go on to build the first Sunday School in the area, across the street from the mill, for the education of the children who were employed at the mill.
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