Flagpole installation inPawtucket, RI

Flagpoles in Pawtucket

A mill city on the Blackstone, now mostly converted mill floors, small manufacturers and a riverfront being rebuilt. We cover Pawtucket and the Providence County area, including Old Slater Mill and the falls, downtown and the arts district, the Tidewater Landing riverfront, Slater Memorial Park, Darlington, Oak Hill, Quality Hill, the Armory and the Main Street and Newport Avenue corridors.

Wind here. Pawtucket sits in a mill-city urban area, which works out to roughly 125 mph under the code your town uses. That figure decides how wide and how thick the pole has to be, so we check it against your address before we quote. The Blackstone reaches sea level at the falls in the middle of Pawtucket, which is why Samuel Slater built where he did in 1793 and why the tide still runs up as far as Main Street. That governs the riverfront work at Tidewater Landing and almost nothing half a mile inland. The rest of the city is mill ground: brick, granite and yards made out of a hundred and fifty years of fill and old foundations, so an auger here can find rubble at two feet, and what the footing costs is decided by what is under the yard rather than by the pole standing on it. Plenty of mill frontage has no ground to stand a pole in at all, and the answer there is an outrigger, where the pole comes off the wall at an angle instead of out of the ground. Whatever it goes in, the footing has to reach past the frost line, which the state code sets at 3 ft 4 in for every town on the mainland.

Most of the people who call us from Pawtucket are converted mill buildings and the businesses inside them, small manufacturers, schools, churches, city facilities, veterans posts, union halls and arts and community groups.