CENTRAL FALLS, a city of Providence county, Rhode Island, U.S.A., on the Blackstone river, 5m. N. of Providence; served by the New York, New Haven and Hartford railroad. The population in 1920 was 24,174 of whom 9,456 were foreign-born white; in 1930 it was 25,898. The river furnishes water-power for large manufacturing industries (chiefly cotton-mills), which in 1925 had an output valued at $25,541,848. A settlement was made here about 1763. About 1780 a chocolate-mill was erected, and until 1827 the town was called Chocolateville. It was in corporated as the Central Falls Fire District of Smithfield in 1847, and in 1896 was chartered as a city.