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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.
Providence (/ p r ɒ v ɪ d (ə) n s / ⓘ) 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.
1850 – Providence Reform School opens. [40] 1852 Central Congregational Church established. [48] Locust Grove Cemetery incorporated. [49] 1853 Providence Young Men's Christian Union [40] established; Joseph Brown teams with Lucian Sharpe to form Brown & Sharpe [50] 1854 A cholera pandemic sweeps the city, especially among crowded immigrants ...
Providence ranked 95th out of 1,000 cities from around the world in a new report, the "Global Cities Index" by Oxford Economics, a United Kingdom-based economic advisory company. This is the ...
John Coggeshall was the son of John and Ann (Butter) Coggeshall. He was born and raised in northeastern Essex, England, and baptised at Halstead. [1] After his marriage, he lived four miles (six km) away in Castle Hedingham where several of his children were baptised, and where he was a merchant prior to his emigration.
Many of the early books had to be purchased from England. In 1758, a fire destroyed the majority of the first collection of books, which were then housed at the Providence court house. 71 of the 345 titles held by the Providence Library Company were in circulation at the time of the fire and survived.
The Providence Journal; Rhode Island History; Rhode Island Naval History; History of Rhode Island (1853; full text online) State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations at the end of the century by Edward Field (ed.). History of the state, published in 1902. (Full text available online.) 1663 charter Archived 2010-11-26 at the Wayback Machine
Oldest house in Providence until its demolition in 1900; Arthur Fenner House Cranston c. 1655: 1886 Arthur Fenner House (c. 1655) in Cranston, demolished 1886; John Smith House Warwick Before 1663 1779 Built by Colonial president John Smith; Razed in 1779 [18] Epenetus Olney House North Providence c. 17th century: by 1900