Further cessions of land occurred in , , and , as Cranston turned over to Providence the land that became Roger Williams Park. Cranston is a city that has embraced all social classes and ethnic groups. The early English settlers arrived in an area already occupied for centuries by the Narragansett Indians. As it did for the newcomers of past generations, Cranston now represents an important step in realizing the American dream for many of its new Latin American and Southeast Asian residents. Historic District Comm.
Historical Cemetery Commission Zoning Administration. Historic District Commission History of Cranston. Unfortunately, the only prospective buyers planned to raze the 28 room home and use the land for parking or senior citizen housing. The members of the Cranston Historical Society felt compelled to save this building which was the birthplace of two RI governors and senators as well as four generations of entrepreneurs who by the mid 19 th century owned the largest textile printing company in the country.
The society managed to buy the empty mansion and then proceeded to solicit donations of furniture and furnishings from Sprague descendants, Cranston residents and the RI Historical Society.
Over the years, harvest balls, craft shows, yard sales, antique appraisals, Halloween ghost parties, Civil War reenactments, antique car shows, Victorian Teas, and other such events have been held here by the Cranston Historical Society. Three successive couples have served as resident managers to oversee both the maintenance of the house as well as the rental of the facilities to organizations, businesses, and individuals.
Its population in was 1,,, the eighth smallest in… … Encyclopedia of Judaism. Rhode Island — This article is about the U. For other uses, see Rhode Island disambiguation. RI and R. For other uses, see RI disambiguation. Raphael… … Wikipedia. Cranston, Rhode Island. Rhode Island portal. United States Census Bureau. Retrieved United States Geological Survey. Retrieved on December 7, Retrieved on August 23, The center of population of Rhode Island is located in Cranston. Cranston is a part of the Providence metropolitan area.
It is among the top 25 safest cities in the country, according to CQ Press's research. After losing much of its territory to neighboring towns and the city of Providence, Cranston itself became a city on 10 March Much of the area comprising modern-day Cranston was purchased by Roger Williams from the Narragansett Indians in as part of the Pawtuxet Purchase, and the first settler in the area was William Arnold, who was followed shortly by William Harris, William Carpenter and Zachariah Rhodes.
After area residents were unable to agree upon a name for a new town for decades, the Town of Cranston was eventually created by the General Assembly in from a portion of Providence north of the Pawtuxet River. Historians debate whether the town was named after Governor Samuel Cranston , the longest-serving Rhode Island governor or his grandson, Thomas Cranston, who was serving as Speaker of the Rhode Island House of Representatives at the time that the town was created.
In the early s town meetings were held at the taverns of Caleb Arnold and Nehemiah Knight where Cranstonians voted in favor of a resolution opposing the British Parliament's Coercive Acts , and the town heavily supported the Patriot cause during the Revolutionary War. After losing much of its territory to neighboring towns and the city of Providence over the nineteenth century, Cranston itself became a city on 10 March According to the United States Census Bureau , the city has a total area of
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