cemetery just off route 146A. Richard Mowry, a Quaker from Quaker City, adjacent to and just north of Ironstone, developed some of the first machines for manufacturing textiles in America, around the time of the American Revolution. A nearby small lake, Ironstone pond, extends into Burrillville, Rhode Island. The northernmost Rhode Island road in Burrillville is "Ironstone Road". Other features and historic sites There is a one-room schoolhouse here which is now a historic building, and is known as the Ironstone School. Today it is the home of the South Uxbridge Community Association. Ironstone and South Uxbridge are part of the Blackstone River Valley National Heritage Corridor of the National Park Service. The Blackstone Valley is the oldest industrialized region of the United States. The Ironstone section of the Town of Uxbridge has other alternate names and dispersed villages which include: Chockalog, south Uxbridge, Albee, Scadden and historically included Quaker City, and Aldrich village. Aldrich village was the original home base to the Aldrich family, the Aldrich family cemetery, and the origins of an American family dynasty that included Senator Nelson Aldrich of Rhode Island, and his son in law, Vice President Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller. Nearby is a very historic "Friends Meetinghouse" (see also listed below). Abby Kelley Foster, a notable American abolitionist, belonged to Friends Meetinghouse. She and fellow local Quaker Effingham Capron, another national anti-slavery leader, worked with the Underground railroad at Ironstone, and in the Blackstone Valley and liberated many slaves. With the relocation of Route 146 in 1984, a unique historic find emerged from a local cemetery in the Ironstone area near the state border. An almshouse cemetery nearby was relocated with the Route 146 construction between 1981–1984 and resulted in historic archeology findings published by Boston University researchers. The findings revealed complex religious mortuary practices used for the poor during the "Second Great Awakening." The Second Great Awakening resulted in social reform in America including the Abolition movement, prison reforms and other social reforms. Abby Kelley Foster, the Quakers, and, Rev. Willard Preston, D.D. had prominent roles in the Second Great Awakening, and roles at or near Ironstone, in Providence, Worcester, and Uxbridge. Abby Kelley led Susan B. Anthony to abolitionism. Preston served in Uxbridge, and as President of the University of Vermont, and became a well known preacher at Savannah, GA just prior to the American Civil War with published sermons at the Independent