Cities, towns and neighborhoods

Origin of place names

Policy legacy of small boundaries

Comfort of home:
farmstead clusters, seaport village, post road stage stop, factory village, urban core, city neighborhood, parish, railroad suburb, streetcar suburb, auto suburb, institutional suburb, beach village.

One’s own time

gone fishing

Bay dinner halls

Amusement parks

horse racing

cycling

baseball

hockey

school sports

Professional sport

organized youth sports

wagering:
auto, horse, dog tracks

picnics

parades

lyceum

library

movies/radio/t.v.

penny arcades

Opera/drama/Vaudeville

public parks/forests/roadside rests

Newport Jazz

The Tent

House tours

Restaurants

Overseers of the Poor

Poor Farm, Workhouse, and Asylum

Hospitals

Public education:
dame schools to universities

Indentured servitude to apprentice training

Night school for immigrants

Public safety:
Night watch, volunteer fire companies, professional police/fire, ambulance

Jail and prison

Local to state govt.

Philanthropy/Community Chest to United Way

Distinctive RI architecture:
stone end colonials, mill village tenements, urban triple deckers, Newport mansions.

Anti-New England linear streetscape vs. New England village commons

The ‘Secular’ public square

The Public Parks Movement

The City Beautiful Movement

curvilinear suburb design

College Hill Plan

Interface Providence

Save the Bay

River relocation

Bay Island Park System

bikeways

195 Redevelopment

Squaw Sachems

’Plantations industry

Wharf-side managers

Printers

Providence Female Charitable Society

Political reform

Literature

Arts

Women’s health

Lighthouse keeping

Education leaders

The Professions

Athletes

Children’s Friend

Domestic design

Achieving the ballot

Pioneers in historic preservation

Holding statewide office

Entrepreneurship