Blackstone may refer to:

People

Charles Blackstone Charles Blackstone (born March 21, 1977)Kevin Frazier"Wine and Bellow: An Interview with Charles Blackstone," Open Letters Monthly, Fall 2013. is an American writer. His most recent novel is the semi-autobiographical ''Vintage Attraction'' (2013) ...

(born 1977), fiction writer * Elliott Blackstone (1924–2006), former police sergeant and LGBT advocate *

Gay Blackstone Gay Blackstone (born March 27, 1952) is an American television and stage producer, director, consultant, lecturer and author. She was president of the Academy of Magical Arts and was named one of "2007 Hollywood's Women of Distinction" by the Holl ...

(born 1952), widow of Harry Blackstone, Jr. *

Harriet Blackstone Harriet Blackstone (November 13, 1864 – March 16, 1939) was an American figure and portrait painter. Many of her subjects were midwestern business leaders and their families she also painted a number of prominent musicians. Early life and ed ...

(1864–1939), American painter * Harry Blackstone Sr. (1885–1965), famous American magician known as "The Great Blackstone" and father of Harry Blackstone, Jr. *

Harry Blackstone Jr. Harry Bouton Blackstone Jr. (June 30, 1934 – May 14, 1997) was an American stage magician, author, and television performer. He is estimated to have pulled 80,000 rabbits from his sleeves and hats. Early life Blackstone was born in Three Riv ...

(1934–1997), popular stage magician and television performer of the late 20th century * Ian Blackstone (born 1964), English former footballer * Jerry Blackstone, director of choirs at the University of Michigan * John Wilford Blackstone Sr. (1796–1868), American lawyer and legislator * John Wilford Blackstone Jr. (1835–1911), American lawyer and legislator * Milton Blackstone (1906–1983), publicity agent for Eddie Fisher *

Tessa Blackstone, Baroness Blackstone Tessa Ann Vosper Blackstone, Baroness Blackstone, (born 27 September 1942) is an English politician and university administrator. Early life Her father, Geoffrey Vaughan Blackstone, CBE, GM, was the Chief Fire Officer for Hertfordshire and ...

(born 1942), British politician * Timothy Blackstone (1829–1900), Chicago Railroad and Stock Yard president * Sir

William Blackstone Sir William Blackstone (10 July 1723 – 14 February 1780) was an English jurist, judge and Tory politician of the eighteenth century. He is most noted for writing the ''Commentaries on the Laws of England''. Born into a middle-class family ...

(1723–1780), English jurist **

Blackstone's formulation In criminal law, Blackstone's ratio (also known as Blackstone's formulation) is the idea that: as expressed by the English jurist William Blackstone in his seminal work '' Commentaries on the Laws of England'', published in the 1760s. The ...

, a principle in criminal law named for the jurist ** The '' Commentaries on the Laws of England'' by William Blackstone, a 1769 major legal text of the 18th century; often referred to as "Blackstone" or "Blackstone's ''Commentaries'' *

William Eugene Blackstone William Eugene Blackstone (October 6, 1841 – November 7, 1935) was an American evangelist and Christian Zionist. He was the author of the Blackstone Memorial of 1891, a petition which called upon America to actively return the Holy Land to th ...

(1841–1935), American evangelist and Christian Zionist *

William Seymour Blackstone William Seymour Blackstone (1809–1881) was an English MP in the Parliament of the United Kingdom. He was the son of James Blackstone, barrister-at-law of the Middle Temple, and grandson of the legal writer William Blackstone (1723–1780). Ele ...

(1809–1881), 19th-century British MP and grandson of William Blackstone the jurist, above * William Blackstone, aka

William Blaxton Reverend William Blaxton (also spelled William Blackstone) (1595 – 26 May 1675) was an early English settler in New England and the first European settler of Boston and Rhode Island. Biography William Blaxton was born in Horncastle, Lincoln ...

(1595–1675), early English settler in New England

Businesses

Blackstone & Co Blackstone & Co. was a farm implement maker at Stamford, Lincolnshire, United Kingdom. History Company History This business was established in 1837 as Smith & Ashby later known as Rutland Iron Works. Later still it came into the ownership of ...

, a diesel engine and agricultural engineering company in Stamford, Lincolnshire, which became Mirrlees Blackstone *

Blackstone Audio Blackstone Audio is one of the largest independent audiobook publishers in the United States, offering over 30,000 audiobooks. The company is based in Ashland, Oregon with five in-house recording studios. Blackstone distributes directly to consu ...

, publisher of audiobooks *

Blackstone Career Institute The Blackstone Career Institute, based in Allentown, Pennsylvania, and founded in 1890, offers distance education programs and home study programs, specializing in courses students can use to study at home or take online to advance their careers. ...

, online training institute *

Blackstone Chambers Blackstone Chambers is a set of barristers' chambers in the Temple district of central London. Established in the 1950s, as of 2022 it had 119 tenants, of whom more than 50 are silks. Current notable members include Robert Anderson, Michael Be ...

, a set of barristers' chambers in London * Blackstone Legal Fellowship, legal training and internship program *

Black Stone Minerals Black Stone Minerals, L.P., or Black Stone Minerals, is a Houston, Texas-based oil and natural gas corporation. History The company was founded as W.T. Carter & Bro., a lumber company, in 1876. The company discovered the Double A Wells Field ...

, a Houston, Texas-based oil and natural gas corporation *

Blackstone Press Blackstone Press Limited is a legal publisher that is a subsidiary of Oxford University Press. It was established in March 1988 by Alistair McQueen. Its management was formerly that of Financial Training Publications, whose law list it purchased. ...

, a subsidiary of OUP * Blackstone Winery, a Gonzales, California winery owned by

Constellation Brands Constellation Brands, Inc., a Fortune 500 company, is an American producer and marketer of beer, wine, and spirits. Constellation is the largest beer import company in the US, measured by sales, and has the third-largest market share (7.4 percen ...

Blackstone Inc Blackstone Inc. is an American alternative investment management company based in New York City. Blackstone's private equity business has been one of the largest investors in leveraged buyouts in the last three decades, while its real estate b ...

, U.S. private equity, investment banking, and asset management firm *

Blackstones Bar Blackstones Bar is a bar located on Pine St off Longfellow Square in the West End (Portland, Maine) neighborhood of Portland, Maine. From its establishment in 1987, the bar served as a popular gathering place for members of the LGBTQ ' i ...

Maine's longest operating LGBTQ bar, and currently Portland's only LGBTQ bar.

Places

Australia

Blackstone, Queensland Blackstone is a suburb of Ipswich in the City of Ipswich, Queensland, Australia. In the , Blackstone had a population of 1,024 people. History The district was originally called Bundamba Creek but this caused confusion with nearby Bundamba, so ...

, a suburb in the City of Ipswich *Blackstone, Western Australia, known as

Papulankutja Papulankutja (also referred to as Blackstone) is a large Aboriginal community located in the Goldfields–Esperance region of Western Australia, within the Shire of Ngaanyatjarraku. History The community exists on the traditional lands of ...

Blackstone Heights, Tasmania Blackstone Heights is a rural/residential locality in the local government areas (LGA) of Meander Valley (97.5%) and West Tamar (2.5%) in the Launceston LGA region of Tasmania. The locality is about east of the town of Westbury. The 2016 ce ...

United Kingdom

Blackstone Edge Blackstone Edge ( ) is a gritstone escarpment at 472 m (1,549 feet) above sea level in the Pennine hills surrounded by moorland on the boundary between Greater Manchester and West Yorkshire in England. History Crossing the escarpment is Bl ...

, an area of moorland along the Lancashire (Greater Manchester) and West Yorkshire county boundary in England *

Blackstone, West Sussex Blackstone is a hamlet in the civil parish of Woodmancote and the Horsham district of West Sussex, England. Blackstone is significant for its listed 17th- and 18th-century houses and cottages. History Blackstone in 1262 was one of two tithi ...

, England

United States

* Blackstone, Illinois *

Blackstone, Massachusetts Blackstone is a town in Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 9,208 at the 2020 census. It is a part of the Providence metropolitan area. History This region was first inhabited by the Nipmuc. Blackstone was settl ...

* Blackstone, Pennsylvania *

Blackstone, Providence, Rhode Island Blackstone is a predominantly residential neighborhood in Providence, Rhode Island. It is in the northeast corner of the city and is bounded to the south and west by Lloyd Avenue and Hope Street respectively. It is one of six neighborhoods comp ...

, a neighborhood **

Blackstone Boulevard Park Blackstone Boulevard Park is a public park and footpath that runs down the center of Blackstone Boulevard on the East Side of Providence, Rhode Island. It is located in the Blackstone neighborhood, an affluent and primarily residential part o ...

, in Providence, Rhode Island **

Blackstone Park Conservation District The Blackstone Park Conservation District is a public, 45-acre woodland conservation area on the East Side of Providence, Rhode Island. It is run by the non-profit Blackstone Parks Conservancy in partnership with the Providence Parks Departm ...

, in Providence, Rhode Island **

Blackstone Park Historic District Blackstone Park Historic District is roughly bounded by the Seekonk River, Laurell Avenue, Blackstone Boulevard, and South Angell Street in Providence, Rhode Island within the Blackstone region of the East Side. In 1886 Horace Cleveland plan ...

, in Providence, Rhode Island *

Blackstone, Virginia Blackstone, formerly named Blacks and Whites, and then Bellefonte, is a town in Nottoway County in the U.S. state of Virginia. The population was 3,621 at the 2010 census. History The settlement was founded as the village of "Blacks and Whites" ...

Blackstone Army Airfield Blackstone Army Airfield , also known as Allen C. Perkinson Airport, is located two miles (3 km) east of the central business district of Blackstone, a town in Nottoway County, Virginia, United States. It is owned by the United States Arm ...

, Virginia *The

Blackstone River The Blackstone River is a river in the U.S. states of Massachusetts and Rhode Island. It flows approximately 48 mi (80 km) and drains a watershed of approximately 540 sq. mi (1,400 km2). Its long history of industrial use has left ...

in Massachusetts and Rhode Island **The

Blackstone Valley The Blackstone Valley or Blackstone River Valley is a region of Massachusetts and Rhode Island. It was a major factor in the American Industrial Revolution. It makes up part of the Blackstone River Valley National Heritage Corridor and Nationa ...

, a National Heritage Corridor along the Blackstone River **

Blackstone River Bikeway The Blackstone River Greenway in October 2006, approximately one mile south of the Martin Street Bridge, Lincoln, Rhode Island The Blackstone River Greenway (formerly Bikeway) is a partially completed paved rail trail defining the course of ...

, a planned rail trail **

Blackstone Valley Regional Vocational Technical High School Blackstone Valley Regional Vocational Technical High School, or BVT for short, is a technical high school in Upton, Massachusetts, serving the thirteen towns of the Blackstone Valley. The school was established in 1964. The school offers eighteen t ...

, Upton, Massachusetts

Canada

Blackstone Lake, Ontario Blackstone Lake, in The Archipelago of the Parry Sound district in Ontario, Canada, is primarily a small, boat-access lake containing nine islands. The lake is approximately three and a half miles long and a little over two miles wide, when the nor ...

Fiction

* ''Blackstone'' (novel), a 1972 novel featuring the character Edmund 'Beau' Blackstone, a fictional 19th century detective created by "Richard Falkirk" (Derek Lambert); the first of six such novels *

Blackstone Chronicles ''The Blackstone Chronicles'' is a serialized novel by American horror and suspense author John Saul. The series consists of six installments and takes place in a fictional New Hampshire town called Blackstone. The series has been adapted into ...

, a series of mystery and thriller novels authored by John Saul * Blackstone Fortress, a type of space station in the fictional universe of ''Warhammer 40,000'' * ''Blackstone'' (TV series), the fictional Blackstone First Nation's struggles with corruption, politics, and the need for change *'' Blackstone, the Magic Detective,'' a radio series starring a fictionalized version of Harry Blackstone, Sr. * The Blackstone, a country club in the TV series ''

Royal Pains ''Royal Pains'' (stylized ℞oyalPains) is an American comedy-drama television series that ran on the USA Network from 2009 to 2016. The series was based in part on actual concierge medicine practices of independent doctors and companies. The ca ...

Other

Black Stone The Black Stone ( ar, ٱلْحَجَرُ ٱلْأَسْوَد, ', 'Black Stone') is a rock set into the eastern corner of the Kaaba, the ancient building in the center of the Grand Mosque in Mecca, Saudi Arabia. It is revered by Muslims as an ...

, a Muslim object of reverence *

Blackstone Avenue Blackstone Avenue is a major roadway arterial in Fresno, California, United States, running from Stanislaus and O Streets near Downtown to Highway 41 northeastern part of the city. This street is the location of a number of historic structures an ...

, a major roadway in Fresno, California, USA *

Blackstone Hall Housing at the University of Chicago includes seven residence halls that are divided into 48 houses. Each house has an average of 70 students. Freshmen and sophomores must live on-campus. Limited on-campus housing is available to juniors and senior ...

, a dormitory at the University of Chicago *

The Blackstone Hotel The Blackstone Hotel is a historic 21-story hotel on the corner of Michigan Avenue and Balbo Drive in the Michigan Boulevard Historic District in the Loop community area of Chicago, Illinois. Built between 1908 and 1910, it is on the Natio ...

, a Chicago hotel * Blackstone Hotel (Omaha, Nebraska), a 1915 Omaha landmark currently known as the Blackstone Center *

Blackstone Library T. B. Blackstone Memorial Library is a building that is part of the Chicago Public Library System and is named after Timothy Blackstone. The building was designed by Chicago architect Solon S. Beman. It is now known as the Chicago Public Lib ...

, Chicago's first public library *

Blackstone Memorial The Blackstone Memorial of 1891 was a petition written by William Eugene Blackstone, a Christian Restorationist, in favor of the delivery of Palestine to the Jews. It was signed by many leading American citizens and presented to President Benjami ...

, a Zionist petition written by William Eugene Blackstone *Blackstone, a codename for ColdFusion 7.0 - beta of ColdFusion MX 7.0, a product of Macromedia *Blackstone, in reference to the Black P. Stones gang *HTC BlackStone, a Windows Mobile phone also known as the

HTC Touch HD The HTC Touch HD, also known as the HTC T828X or its codename the HTC Blackstone, is a Windows Mobile 6.1 Pocket PC designed and manufactured by HTC launched in 2008. Part of the HTC Touch Family, it features a larger, higher-resolution displa ...

Operation Blackstone Operation Blackstone was a part of Operation Torch, the Allied landings in North Africa during World War II. The operation called for American amphibious troops to land at and capture the French-held port of Safi in French Morocco. The landings ...

, part of Operation Torch, the Allied landings in Africa during World War II