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EAST PROVIDENCE

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Originally appearing in Volume V08, Page 837 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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EAST See also:PROVIDENCE , a township of Providence See also:county, Rhode See also:Island, U.S.A., on the E. See also:side of Providence See also:river, opposite Providence. Pop. (1890) 8422; (1900) 12,138, of whom 2067 were See also:foreign-See also:born; (1910 See also:census) 15,808. See also:Area, 128 sq. m. It is served by the New See also:York, New Haven & See also:Hartford railway. It has a See also:rolling See also:surface and contains several villages, one of which, known as See also:Rumford, has important manufactories of chemicals and See also:electrical supplies. See also:South of this See also:village, along the river See also:bank, are several attractive summer resorts, See also:Hunt's See also:Mills, See also:Silver See also:Spring, See also:Riverside, Vanity See also:Fair, See also:Kettle Point and See also:Bullock's Point being prominent among them. In 1905 the factory products of the township were valued at $5,035,288. The See also:oyster See also:trade is important. It was within the See also:present limits of this township that See also:Roger See also:Williams established himself in the spring of 1636, until he learned that the See also:place was within the See also:jurisdiction of the See also:Plymouth See also:Colony. About 1644 it was settled by a See also:company from See also:Weymouth as a See also:part of a See also:town of Rehoboth. In 1812 Rehoboth was divided, and the See also:west part was made the township of Seekonk.

Finally, in 1861, it was decided that the west part of Seekonk belonged to Rhode Island, and in the following See also:

year that part was incorporated as the township of East Providence.

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