North Providence
Subtitle: a history and the people who shaped it
By: Paul F. Caranci
Publisher: History Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Charleston, SC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 126
ISBN-13: 9781609497187
Subjects: Walking; Villages; Tours; Biography; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Part I. Introduction to North Providence; title: A Brief History of North Providence; title: North Providence Government Leaders : The Five Mayors; title: A One-Hundred-Year History of the North Providence Town Council; title: Part II. Biographies; title: Captain Stephen Olney : Hero of the American Revolutionary War; title: Jacob Goff : The Rhode Island Powder Mill; title: Esek Hopkins : First Admiral to the Continental Navy; title: Samuel Slater : Another Revolution Comes to North Providence; title: Daniel Lyman : Revolutionizing the Manufacture of Cotton; title: Zachariah Allen : Scientist, Inventor, Visionary; title: Richard and James Anthony and Luther Carpenter : Centredale/Greystone Mill Owners and Entrepreneurs; title: James Angell and James Halsey Angell : The Emergence of the Centredale Business District; title: The Story of Frank Capron Angell; title: Senator Frank Sgambato : Man of the People; title: John A. Notte Jr. : Rhode Island Governor; title: The Saga of Lydia Wilcox; title: Mary Ann Angell Young : Pioneer and Woman of Faith; title: Part III. Walking Tours of the Villages of Lymansville, Allendale, Centredale and Fruit Hill.