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Providence was named by Roger Williams in honor of "God's merciful Providence" in his finding this spot to settle when expelled by the Puritans from Massachusetts. The official name of the state includes the name of the city, Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.
Providence is the home of Providence College, Brown University, Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) and Johnson and Wales University . The East Side neighborhood of Providence includes the largest contiguous area of National Historic Society-designated buildings in America. Providence also has a huge new shopping mall and several music venues including AS220 , The Met Cafe , and the excellent Lupo's Heartbreak Hotel . In the center of the city lies the Providence PlaceProvidence Place is a modern urban shopping mall in the central part of Providence, Rhode Island, near the state capitol and railroad station. The anchors stores are Nordstrom, Lord & Taylor and Filene's and there is also a large cinema. The mall was inst Mall.
Providence has hosted the Gravity Games alternative sports tournament during several recent summers. Also during the summer months, there are multiple WaterFireWaterFire is an environmental art installation created by Barnaby Evans in Providence, Rhode Island. Since 1994 it has been presented on selected evenings during the summer months. It consists of a series of 100 bonfires that blaze just above the surface events on the downtown rivers.
Providence is served by T. F. Green AirportGreen Airport is an airport in Warwick, Rhode Island, near Providence. It has the IATA Airport Code PVD. Green Airport and Manchester Airport were made alternatives to Boston, Massachusetts' Logan International Airport so that the city of Boston didn't ha, which is located in nearby Warwick, Rhode IslandWarwick is a city located in Kent County, Rhode Island. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 85,808. Warwick has an airport called T. Green Airport, which serves much of Rhode Island, including Providence. The airport also functions a. The railroad station is served by AmtrakAmtrak is the name of an intercity passenger train system created on May 1, 1971 in the United States. Amtrak is an independent for-profit corporation, however its board is entirely controlled by the United States government through presidential appointme and MBTA commuter railroad.
The area was first settled in 1636 by Roger Williams, and was one of the original Thirteen ColoniesBetsy Ross purportedly sewed the first American flag with 13 stars and 13 stripes representing each of the 13 colonies. Details such as the stars' arrangement, size, and shape varied widely among different makers. The Thirteen Colonies were 13 British col. Williams secured a title to the land from the Narragansett Indians around this time, renaming the area "Providence," because of "God's merciful providence." Williams cultivated Providence as a refuge for persecuted religious dissenters, as he himself had been exiled from Massachusetts. Shortly after being settled, much of Providence was burned down in King Philip's WarKing Philip's War was a general Indian uprising in 1675- 1676 to resist continued expansion of the English colonies in New England. It was the bloodiest of the Indian wars in terms of relative casualties, and several tribes were virtually or totally elimi, which lasted from 1675 to 1676.
Providence's growth was slow during the next quarter-century. The first census of the colony was taken in 1708, and numbered 1,446 residents at that time. The next twenty-five years would prove to be a growth spurt, however. In the second census, taken in 1730, the colony's population had almost tripled to 3,916 people. The Providence territory would become smaller, though, as more and more of the land would become part of different towns, including Scituate and Johnston.
In the mid-1770's, Providence joined the other colonies in renouncing allegiance to the British Crown. Providence's population had exceeded 4,300 citizens by 1776, and Providence was able to avoid occupation by British soldiers during the Revolutionary War, though the city did suffer major interruptions in education and trade as a result of its location and facility as quarters for many troops passing through the area.
Following the war, Providence's main focus on its economy shifted from maritime endeavors to manufacturing ones. Samuel Slater is credited as having begun the shift in about 1790, and historians mark the transformation's completion at about 1830. Manufacturing would be the city's major industry for the next one hundred years.
In April 2001 Vincent Cianci, Jr, a former mayor often credited with Providence's 1990s renaissance, was indicted on federal charges of racketeering, conspiracy, extortion, witness tampering, and mail fraud.
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