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CRANSTON

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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 378 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CRANSTON , a See also:

city of See also:Providence See also:county, Rhode See also:Island, U.S.A., adjoining the city of Providence on the S. Pop. (18go) 8099; (1900) 13,343; (1910) 21,107; See also:area, 30 sq. m. It is served by the New See also:York, New Haven & See also:Hartford railway. The See also:surface of the E. See also:part is level, that of the W. part is some-what See also:rolling. Within the city are several villages, including See also:Arlington, See also:Auburn, Edgewood, Fiskeville and Oaklawn. The inhabitants of the See also:country districts are engaged largely in the growing of See also:hay, See also:Indian See also:corn, See also:rye, oats and See also:market-See also:garden produce; in the several villages See also:cotton and See also:print goods, fuses for See also:electrical machinery, and automatic See also:fire-See also:protection sprinklers are manufactured. The value of Cranston's factory product increased from $1,402,359 in 1900 to $2,130,969 in 1905, or 52%. The See also:state has a See also:farm of 667 acres in the S. part of the city; on this are the state See also:prison, the Providence county jail, the state workhouse and the See also:house of correction, the state See also:alms-house, the state See also:hospital for the insane, the Sockanosset school for boys, and the Oaklawn school for girls—the last two being departments of the state reform school. The See also:post-See also:office address of all these state institutions is See also:Howard. Cranston was settled as a part of Providence about 164o by associates of See also:Roger See also:Williams, and in 1751. was incorporated as a See also:separate township, but in 1868, in 1873 and in 1892 portions of it were reannexed to Providence. The township is said to have been named in See also:honour of See also:Samuel Cranston (1659-1929), See also:governor of Rhode Island from 1698 until his See also:death.

It was incorporated as a city in 1g1o.

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