Editing Webster, Massachusetts (section)

==History==
The area that is now Webster was the ancestral home of the [[Nipmuc]] people for thousands of years. It was first colonized by Europeans in 1713 and was officially incorporated on March 6, 1832. The area forming the town had previously been divided among the town of [[Dudley, Massachusetts|Dudley]], the town of [[Oxford, Massachusetts|Oxford]] and an unincorporated [[Gore (surveying)|gore]]. The primary founder was the manufacturer [[Samuel Slater]], who came to the area after his celebrated activities in [[Pawtucket, Rhode Island|Pawtucket]], [[Rhode Island]], and founded several textile mills, one of which was taken over by the Cranston Print Works in 1936.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.cpw.com/history.htm |title=The History of Cranston Print Works |website=www.cpw.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20000817010908/http://www.cpw.com/history.htm |archive-date=August 17, 2000}}</ref>  He named the town after his friend [[Daniel Webster]]. Slater spent his last years in Webster and died and is buried there in Mount Zion Cemetery.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.oldewebster.com/| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190808180711/http://www.oldewebster.com/| archive-date=August 8, 2019| title=Welcome to Olde Webster}}</ref>