Place:Valley Falls, Providence, Rhode Island, United States

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NameValley Falls
TypeCensus-designated place
Coordinates41.918°N 71.392°W
Located inProvidence, Rhode Island, United States
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Valley Falls is a village and census-designated place (CDP) in the town of Cumberland, Providence County, Rhode Island, United States. The population was 11,547 at the 2010 census.

Warren Buffett's company Berkshire Hathaway was founded in 1839 by Oliver Chace in Valley Falls as a cotton manufacturing company, called the Valley Falls Company. Valley Falls is also the home of the Ann & Hope Mill.

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