Cities, towns and neighborhoods
Rhode Island Family Album
‘The Custom of the Neighbors’
Towns and Turf
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.
Recreation
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
Caring/Charity
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
The ‘built environment’
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
‘Remembering the Women’
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