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Uxbridge, a " mini tapestry of early America ", marks the center of the Blackstone Valley Heritage Corridor, a key region of America's earliest industrialization.

The town, once home to the Nipmuc, was settled by Europeans from Braintree in the 1660s, including the Taft family, ( a later political dynasty ).

There are more than 375 state or national historic sites.

Uxbridge was an incubator for textiles, power looms for woolens, cashmere woolens, and manufacturing of clothing and military uniforms, for over 140 years.

The first woolen mill in the Blackstone Valley was built here in 1809.

The Bachman Uxbridge Worsted Company's proposed 1954 buyout of the American Woolen Company would have created America's largest woolen conglomerate.

The first Air Force Dress Uniform, " Uxbridge Blue ", was made here.

Uxbridge played key roles in women's rights by granting town meeting voting rights to America's first woman voter, Lydia Taft, and the right to serve on juries to Massachusetts's first women jurors, and playing minor roles in the narratives of American Revolution soldier, Deborah Sampson, and abolitionist Abby Kelley Foster.

Seth Reed fought at Bunker Hill, and was " instrumental " in adding E Pluribus Unum, (' From Many, One '), to U. S. Coins.

Uxbridge became an important junction for the underground railroad, and was the home of nationally known anti-slavery champion, Effingham Capron.