East Providence, Rhode Island

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Music in East Providence

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Rivers & Roads in Song near East Providence

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Interstate 95 19 songs Massachusetts Turnpike 2 songs

History of East Providence

The City That Sets Its Rivers on Fire RoadyGoat

Providence is the rare city that literally sets its rivers on fire and calls it art. WaterFire, created by artist Barnaby Evans, fills the downtown rivers with dozens of floating bonfires on metal braziers; it grew from an eleven-fire New Year's piece in 1994 into the full multi-fire installation by 1996, drawing crowds along the water at dusk. Up the hill, Federal Hill is the city's Italian-American dining heart, and you enter beneath an arch on Atwells Avenue hung with La Pigna, a bronze pinecone (often mistaken for a pineapple) that's an old symbol of welcome. Downtown sits The Arcade, built in 1828 and widely called the oldest enclosed shopping mall in America, once nicknamed 'Butler's Folly.' Add Brown University, founded in 1764, and the Rhode Island School of Design, and you've got a small capital that punches far above its weight.

3.2 mi away

The Borden House RoadyGoat

1892

On the morning of August 4, 1892, Andrew and Abby Borden were killed inside their home at 92 Second Street in Fall River, Massachusetts. The only person indicted for the murders was Andrew's thirty-two-year-old daughter Lizzie, who was acquitted after a nationally followed trial and who lived out the rest of her life in the same city under the same watchful eyes. The case was never officially solved. The house still stands on a modest working-class block, and today it operates as a bed-and-breakfast and museum; guests can stay in the same rooms the Bordens slept in on their last night. It is one of the few places in America where you can rent a bed in a murder scene and sleep through the whole thing, if you are able.

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Roger Williams National Memorial

1636

Site near where Roger Williams established Providence in 1636 after being banished from Massachusetts for advocating religious freedom and separation of church and state.

3.4 mi away

Brown University

1764

Founded in 1764 as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island, the seventh-oldest college in the U.S. and the first Ivy League school to accept students regardless of religious affiliation.

India Point Park

1680

Historic waterfront where Providence's merchant fleet sailed to trade with China, India, and the Caribbean, and where the city's complex relationship with the slave trade began.

Providence Athenaeum

1836

One of the oldest lending libraries in America, where Edgar Allan Poe courted poet Sarah Helen Whitman among the bookshelves in 1848.

Benefit Street - Mile of History

1756

One of the finest concentrations of colonial and early American architecture in the country, spanning nearly three centuries of building styles.

Rhode Island School of Design

1877

Founded in 1877 by women from the Rhode Island Centennial Commission, RISD is one of the oldest and most prestigious art and design schools in the nation.

3.1 mi away

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