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Providence metropolitan area

  • Providence, Rhode IslandRoger Williams arrived in the area that would become Providence in June 1636. He was a Puritan theologian banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony for his…
  • Pawtucket, Rhode IslandThe name Pawtucket comes from an Algonquian word meaning river fall. American Indians caught salmon and smaller fish that gathered at these falls long before…
  • Smithfield, Rhode IslandThe year 1663 marked the arrival of British colonists who established a farming community in what is now Smithfield, Rhode Island.