North Smithfield, Rhode Island

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Dave Rawlings
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Dave Rawlings Machine
americana Pop: 29

Rivers & Roads in Song near North Smithfield

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Interstate 95 13 songs Massachusetts Turnpike 2 songs

History of North Smithfield

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.

12.1 mi away

Slater Mill

1793

First successful water-powered cotton spinning mill in the United States, built by Samuel Slater in 1793 on the Blackstone River.

10.5 mi away

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.

11.8 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.

12.3 mi away

WaterPlace Park and WaterFire

1994

Public art installation by Barnaby Evans featuring nearly 100 bonfires on the three rivers of downtown Providence, credited with sparking the city's urban renaissance.

11.8 mi away

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.

12.1 mi away

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.

12.3 mi away

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