Providence
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- Names
Providence
- Place Type
- inhabited place
- Description
- Located at head of Narragansett Bay on Providence river; purchased by Roger Williams from Amerindians in 1636; grew as trade center for slaves, molasses and rum 1680s; destroyed British tea and housed troops in Revolutionary War; damaged in hurricane of 1938.
- Authority
- Thesaurus of Geographic Names
- Source
- Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988); National Archives and Record Administration database (1987-); USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994); Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984);
- Born
Lee Bontecou (American, born 1931)
- Died
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