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Providence is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Rhode Island. The county seat of Providence County, it is one of the oldest cities in New England, [7] founded in 1636 by Roger Williams, a Reformed Baptist theologian and religious exile from the Massachusetts Bay Colony. He named the area in honor of "God's merciful ...
The Stephen Hopkins House is the oldest extant house in Providence. The Rhode Island city of Providence has a nearly 400-year history integral to that of the United States, including significance in the American Revolutionary War by providing leadership and fighting strength, quartering troops, and supplying goods to residents by circumventing the blockade of Newport.
1st, 2nd. Providence County is the most populous county in the U.S. state of Rhode Island. As of the 2020 census, the county's population was 660,741, or 60.2% of the state's population. [1] Providence County contains the city of Providence, the state capital of Rhode Island and the county's (and state's) most populous city, with an estimated ...
Providence, Rhode Island: Sampson, Murdock & Co. 1889. George Owen Willard (1891), History of the Providence stage, 1762-1891, Providence: Rhode Island News Co., OL 7237402M; Mariana M. Tallman (1893), "In and about Providence", Pleasant places in Rhode Island, and how to reach them, Providence: The Providence Journal Company
The Rhode Island State House is located on Smith Street at the northern edge of Downtown. It includes the chambers of the Rhode Island General Assembly and the Governor's Office. The Rhode Island Department of Education is headquartered in the Shepard Company Building at 255 Westminster Street. [17]
The Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations was one of the original Thirteen Colonies established on the east coast of America, bordering the Atlantic Ocean. It was founded by Roger Williams. It was an English colony from 1636 until 1707, and then a colony of Great Britain until the American Revolution in 1776, when it became the ...
[3] [5] The Hospital District, a non-residential area within Upper South Providence is similarly unrecognized. The oldest, highest density neighborhoods are either those close to Downtown or proximate to the Woonasquatucket River , which provided a power source for early industrialization in Manton, Hartford, and Olneyville.
Rhode Island (/ ˌ r oʊ d-/ ⓘ, pronounced "road") [6] [7] is a state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States.It borders Connecticut to its west; Massachusetts to its north and east; and the Atlantic Ocean to its south via Rhode Island Sound and Block Island Sound; and shares a small maritime border with New York, east of Long Island. [8]