Rhode Island's industrial heritage river flows 26 miles through Cranston and Warwick to Narragansett Bay. The Pawtuxet powered dozens of textile mills in the 19th century — many now converted to apartments and shops. Class I–II paddling past historic mill villages, stone dams, and an increasingly green urban corridor. The Gaspee Affair of 1772, when colonists burned a British revenue ship at the river's mouth, was a precursor to the American Revolution.