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Title:
  • North Providence, a history, and the people who shaped it / Paul F. Caranci.
Call No:
  • F89.N9
  • C38 2012
Source of Acquisition:
  • Stevens, Elizabeth,
  • Gift;
  • 13 Oct 2012;
  • 2012.113.1
Subjects:
Author:
Imprint Place:
  • Charleston, SC :
Publisher/Printer:
  • History Press,
Imprint Date:
  • 2012.
Physical Description:
  • 126 p. :
  • ill. ;
  • 23 cm.
Accession No:
  • 2012.113.1
Provenance:
  • Stevens, Elizabeth,
Notes:
  • Includes bibliography (p. ([119]-123) and index.
  • Part I. Introduction to North Providence. A brief history of North Providence -- North Providence government leaders : the five mayors -- A one-hundred-year history of the North Providence Town Council. Part II. Biographies. Captain Stephen Olney : hero of the American Revolution -- Jacob Goff : the Rhode Island Powder Mill -- Esek Hopkins : first admiral of the Continental Navy -- Samuel Slater : another revolution comes to North Providence -- Daniel Lyman : revolutionizing the manufacture of cotton -- Zachariah Allen : scientist, inventor, visionary -- Richard and James Anthony and Luther Carpenter : Centredale/Greystone mill owners and entrepreneurs -- James Angell Jr. and James Halsey Angell : the emergence of the Centredale business district -- The story of Frank Capron Angell -- Senator Frank Sgambato : man of the people -- John A. Notte Jr. : Rhode Island's common man governor -- The Saga of Lydia Wilcox -- Mary Ann Angell Young : pioneer and woman of faith. Part III. Walking Tours of the Villages of Lymansville, Allendale, Centredale and Fruit Hill.
Location:
  • Reading Room
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