The Providence Plantations for Two Hundred and Fifty Years. An Historical Review of the Foundation, Rise and Progress of the City of Providence, With a Graphic Description of the City at the Present Time, and of Its Industries, Commerce, Manufactures, Business Interests, Educational, Religious and Charitable Institutions, Civic, Scientific, and Military Organizations; also, Sketches of the Cities of Newport and Pawtucket, and Other Towns of the State. ... Illustrated with Many Engravings of Historical Places ...
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Year: 1886
Entry: Greene, Welcome Arnold, ed. The Providence Plantations for Two Hundred and Fifty Years. An Historical Review of the Foundation, Rise and Progress of the City of Providence, With a Graphic Description of the City at the Present Time, and of Its Industries, Commerce, Manufactures, Business Interests, Educational, Religious and Charitable Institutions, Civic, Scientific, and Military Organizations; also, Sketches of the Cities of Newport and Pawtucket, and Other Towns of the State. ... Illustrated with Many Engravings of Historical Places ... Providence: J. A. & R. A. Reid, 1886. 468 p., map, [1] p.
Author/Editor: Greene, Welcome Arnold, ed
Location: Providence, RI
Holdings: In most academic libraries
Title: The Providence Plantations for Two Hundred and Fifty Years. An Historical Review of the Foundation, Rise and Progress of the City of Providence, With a Graphic Description of the City at the Present Time, and of Its Industries, Commerce, Manufactures, Business Interests, Educational, Religious and Charitable Institutions, Civic, Scientific, and Military Organizations; also, Sketches of the Cities of Newport and Pawtucket, and Other Towns of the State. ... Illustrated with Many Engravings of Historical Places ...
Printer/Publisher: J. A. & R. A. Reid
Language: English
Notes: For the B’nai B’rith, Independent Order Free Sons of Israel, and Independent Order of the Sons of Benjamin lodges in Providence, see p. 207. Also in Providence: the Montefiore Benevolent Association (formerly the Ladies’ Hebrew Benevolent Association), p. 224; Hebrew Cemetery, p. 361. For Newport and its Jewish cemetery, see p. 436 (view of the entrance) and p. 442; Touro Synagogue, p. 444. Greene was assisted by Rev. William H. Fish and Robert A. Reid; the work of numerous contributing writers is acknowledged, also credits given for the photographs, designs, and engravings.