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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1246_providence-water-street_Providence-RI.html
The site of an 18th century seaport village where seafaring merchants participated in the African slave trade. In the 20th century this port was used by Cape Verdeans who came to live in America.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1244_the-puritan-and-the-indian_Providence-RI.html
Daniel Chester FrenchCompleted 1902Restored 2002 by Granoff AssociatesDaniel Chester French is best known as the sculptor of the Lincoln Memorial and Concord's Minute Man. This statuary portrays the two cultures that defined New England history.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1243_thomas-a-doyle_Providence-RI.html
Eighteen years mayor of ProvidencePioneer in Urban Renewal
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1242_repentance-for-slavery_Providence-RI.html
On this site Providence R.I. July 5th 1999 in conjunction with the 22nd general Synod of the United Church of Christ a group of church and community people gathered in an act of repentance for African American slavery and in celebration of human f…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1240_first-professional-theater_Providence-RI.html
Site of the "first' Professional Theater in Providence from August 6, 1795- September 23, 1832
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM123X_rhode-island-irish-famine-memorial_Providence-RI.html
The great famine of 1845-1851 was the most important event of the Nineteenth century Ireland. In the seven terrible years between 1845 and 1851, the potato crop, on which a large majority of the Irish people depended for their survival, failed com…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1226_a-changing-nation_Providence-RI.html
By the end of the Revolutionary War, the center of town had moved to several blocks south of this point. From 1820 to 1850 the Blackstone Canal and Providence and Worcester Railroad were built along the western edge of this plot, and Canal Street …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM121B_a-shelter-for-persons-distressed_Providence-RI.html
In 1636, Roger Williams bought land from the Narragansett chiefs and established a colony here near the site of a fresh water spring. Naming the town for God's providence to him, Williams declared the settlement a shelter for the persecuted of all…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM121A_a-howling-wilderness_Providence-RI.html
Though uninhabited on the eve of its settlement by Europeans, this area already had a 7000 year history of activity by native Americans. In 1636, this land was the low, marshy shoreline of a large saltwater cove to the west, along the eastern side…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1219_the-original-water-supply_Providence-RI.html
Left PlaqueThe Spring on this lot was the original water supply around which Roger Williams gathered the first settlers was in 1721 by reservation in the deed from the Proprietors of Providence made accessible to the townspeople forever Right Plaq…