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Johnston is a town in Providence County, Rhode Island, United States. The population was 29,568 at the 2020 census. Johnston is the site of the Clemence Irons House (1691), a stone-ender museum, [3] and the only landfill in Rhode Island. Incorporated on March 6, 1759, Johnston was named for the colonial attorney general, Augustus Johnston. [4] [5]
Municipalities in Rhode Island can incorporate as a town or city by a special act of the state legislature and there is no minimum population requirement. [4] Eight municipalities were re-incorporated as cities operating under a charter, while the other 31 remain as towns which perform similar services. [ 4 ]
The neighborhood is named for the local 19th-century mill owner Thomas Henry Hughes, an Englishman who arrived in America first to Pawtucket, Rhode Island in 1839, and later to Johnston in 1849. [1] Thomas Hughes established what would later be known as the Hughesdale Dye and Chemical Works on the Dry Brook, a tributary of the Pocasset River ...
Providence neighborhoods with Manton in red Rhode Island College. Manton is a residential neighborhood in Providence, Rhode Island and part of Johnston, Rhode Island.It is in the westernmost part of the city. of Providence The town of North Providence borders it to the north, Johnston to the west, while the neighborhoods of Hartford, Olneyville, and Mount Pleasant border it inside Providence.
Town of Newport, Essex, England 83,832: 102 sq mi (264 km 2) Providence County: 007: Providence: 1703: Formed in 1703 as Providence Plantations County. Renamed Providence County in 1729: Divine Providence, a concept reflecting the religious nature of colonial founder Roger Williams: 660,615: 409 sq mi (1,059 km 2) Washington County: 009: South ...
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Joseph M. Polisena (born June 27, 1954) is an American politician from Rhode Island.He served in the Rhode Island Senate from 1993 to 1999 and again from 2001 to 2007. [1] He served as mayor of the Town of Johnston from 2007 until he was succeeded by his son, Joseph Polisena Jr., in 2023. [2]