Title: North Providence : a history and the people who shaped it /
Authors: Caranci, Paul F.
Publisher: History Press,
Year: 2012
Subjects: Villages Rhode Island North Providence (Town); Walking Rhode Island North Providence (Town); North Providence (R.I. : Town) History.; North Providence (R.I. : Town) Biography.; North Providence (R.I. : Town) Tours.
Contents: Part I. Introduction to North Providence -- A Brief History of North Providence -- North Providence Government Leaders : The Five Mayors -- A One-Hundred-Year History of the North Providence Town Council -- Part II. Biographies -- Captain Stephen Olney : Hero of the American Revolutionary War -- Jacob Goff : The Rhode Island Powder Mill -- Esek Hopkins : First Admiral to the Continental Navy -- Samuel Slater : Another Revolution Comes to North Providence -- Daniel Lyman : Revolutionizing the Manufacture of Cotton -- Zachariah Allen : Scientist, Inventor, Visionary -- Richard and James Anthony and Luther Carpenter : Centredale/Greystone Mill Owners and Entrepreneurs -- James Angell and James Halsey Angell : The Emergence of the Centredale Business District -- The Story of Frank Capron Angell -- Senator Frank Sgambato : Man of the People -- John A. Notte Jr. : Rhode Island Governor -- The Saga of Lydia Wilcox -- Mary Ann Angell Young : Pioneer and Woman of Faith -- Part III. Walking Tours of the Villages of Lymansville, Allendale, Centredale and Fruit Hill.