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The United States Rubber Company Mill Complex is a historic industrial facility in Providence, Rhode Island. It is a large complex of factory buildings covering about 23 acres (9.3 ha) on the north bank of the Woonasquatucket River. It is bounded on the west by Ericson Place, the north by Valley Street, and the east by Hemlock Street.
In May 2019, the Rhode Island Senate announced that the state would borrow $200 million to reconfigure I-95 through Downtown Providence, near the southern terminus of Route 146. The replacement of the Providence Viaduct with twin bridges is intended to alleviate the bottleneck created by traffic entering I-95 from US Route 6 (US 6) and Route 10 ...
The Brown & Sharpe Manufacturing Company Complex (also known as Darling, Brown & Sharpe; Capital Industrial Center; The Foundry) is a historic factory complex in Providence, Rhode Island along the Woonasquatucket River. The 25-acre (10 ha) complex occupies most of a large city block bounded on the south by Promenade Street, the west by Bath and ...
The Moshassuck River (MOE-shash-uck [1]) is a river in the U.S. state of Rhode Island. It flows 8.9 miles (14.3 km) [ 2 ] from the town of Lincoln to the city of Providence . There are six dams along the river's length.
The point was named after William Field, a British colonist who settled in Providence, RI with an acreage and a house on what is now South Main Street. In the 19th century, Fields Point Farm, a 37-acre (150,000 m 2) park, developed as the major recreational area in the city until Roger Williams Park was created in 1871. [2]
Route 94 (Mont Hygeia Road / Foster Center Road) – Foster Center, Glocester: Scituate: 6.50: 10.46: US 6 east (North Scituate Bypass) – Providence: US 6 continues east; western terminus of US 6 business; eastbound exit and westbound entrance: 6.70: 10.78: Route 102 (Chopmist Hill Road) to US 6 – Coventry, Glocester: 11.12: 17.90
To the north, that freeway was connected with the Kent County Freeway by a new section, opened November 22, 1969, as the last section of I-95 in Rhode Island. The connection to Route 3 at Kitts Corner was removed, and Route 3 was moved back to the old road over the Big River. Route 95 was renumbered I-95, as the whole road was now a freeway.
The original intention was to have I-295 act as a full ring road around the Providence metropolitan area with the alignment roughly following Rhode Island Route 37 across Narragansett Bay and continuing in a northern direction with a major interchange located at I-195 exit 2 in Swansea, Massachusetts, before heading west toward Attleboro. Due ...