Pawtucket, Rhode Island City of Pawtucket Location in Providence County and the state of Rhode Island.
Location in Providence County and the state of Rhode Island.
Pawtucket Listeni/p t k t/ is a town/city in Providence County, Rhode Island, United States.
Pawtucket borders Providence, Rhode Island and the state of Massachusetts.
The name "Pawtucket" comes from the Algonquian word for "river fall." The Pawtucket region was said to have been one of the most crowded places in New England before to the arrival of European settlers. Native Americans would gather here to take favor of the salmon and lesser fish which gathered at the falls. The first European settler here was Joseph Jenckes, who came to the region from Lynn, Massachusetts. He purchased about 60 acres near Pawtucket Falls in 1671. He established a sawmill and forge. These, along with the entire town, were later finished amid King Philip's War. Map of Pawtucket, Massachusetts, July 1848 The Pawtucket Times Building Originally, the territory west of the Blackstone River was part of close-by North Providence. East of the Blackstone River was originally settled as part of the Massachusetts town of Rehoboth, then was incorporated as Pawtucket, Massachusetts in 1828. In 1862 the easterly portion was combined into Providence County, Rhode Island. In 1874, the territory west of the river was taken from North Providence and added to the (now Rhode Island) town of Pawtucket, and in 1885-1886 West and East Pawtucket were consolidated and the town/city was incorporated. Pawtucket was an early and meaningful center of cotton textiles amid the American Industrial Revolution.
Slater Mill, assembled in 1793 by Samuel Slater on the Blackstone River falls in downtown Pawtucket, was the first fully mechanized cotton-spinning foundry in America. Slater Mill is known for developing a commercially prosperous manufacturing process not reliant on earlier horse-drawn processes advanced in America.
Other manufacturers continued, transforming Pawtucket into a center for textiles, iron working, and other products.
Pawtucket in 1886 Pawtucket in 1886 viewed from the steeple of the Pawtucket Congregational Church By the 1920s, Pawtucket was a prosperous foundry town.
The town/city boasted over a half-dozen movie theatres, two dozen hotels, and an impressive compilation of fine commercial and residentiary architecture. Perhaps the most impressive enhance building in Pawtucket was the Leroy Theatre, an ornate movie palace that was called "Pawtucket's Million Dollar Theater". Many wealthy foundry owners such as Darius Goff assembled their mansions in the area. Later in the 20th Century, Pawtucket lost much of its architectural tradition to the wrecking ball, including the Leroy Theatre. But unlike various older foundry towns in the region, Pawtucket retained much of its industrialized base.
Hasbro, one of the world's biggest manufacturers of toys and games, is headquartered in Pawtucket.
Pawtucket is positioned at 41 52 32 N 71 22 34 WCoordinates: 41 52 32 N 71 22 34 W. According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 9.0 square miles (23 km2), of which, 8.7 square miles (23 km2) of it is territory and 0.3 square miles (0.78 km2) of it (2.89%) is water.
Pawtucket lies inside three drainage basins.
Pawtucket was the fourth most crowded of Rhode Island's 39 metros/cities and towns.
In the city, the populace was spread out with 24.9% under the age of 18, 9.1% from 18 to 24, 31.3% from 25 to 44, 19.9% from 45 to 64, and 14.8% who were 65 years of age or older.
According to the 2000 census, 20.6% of Pawtucket inhabitants are French or French-Canadian. Like close-by cities Providence, RI; East Providence, RI; Fall River, MA; & New Bedford, MA; Pawtucket hosts a momentous population from athwart the former Portuguese Empire (11.6%) plus an extremely momentous Cape Verdean population.
Pawtucket is also one of the several areas of the United States with a momentous Liberian population, mostly refugees from Charles Taylor's regime.
Rhode Island has the highest per capita Liberian populace in the country. Pawtucket has a very high concentration of West Africans.
See also: List of Registered Historic Places in Pawtucket, Rhode Island Pawtucket Armory Center for the Arts (former Pawtucket Armory), with The Sandra Feinstein-Gamm Theatre in annex The City of Pawtucket has been supportive of the Arts Community since 1975, and over the past 40 years various organizations have been active in closing that support of the small-town arts improve and beyond.
At one point The City of Pawtucket hired Researcher Ann Galligan, of Northeastern University, to problematic an arts and cultural plan.
Allowing the town/city to turn into more proactive in retaining and attracting artists will enable town/city officials to allocate resources more effectively to meet the needs of Pawtucket's burgeoning artist community.
Over the years Pawtucket has turn into known as a center for arts and culture.
The 2008 documentary Pawtucket Rising also chronicled the influx of artists and cultural activities into previously blighted areas of the city.
Each September, the city, in conjunction with the "Pawtucket Arts Festival" organization, and a broad group of small-town improve members, produce an annual town/city wide Arts Festival.
The American-French Genealogical Society was established in Pawtucket in 1978. Pawtucket is home to Mc - Coy Stadium, where the Pawtucket Red Sox, the AAA affiliate/Minor League team of the Boston Red Sox, presently play.
The longest experienced baseball game in history, 33 innings, was played at Mc - Coy Stadium in 1981. Pawtucket has a history of experienced baseball dating back to 1892, including the Pawtucket Indians.
Public education in Pawtucket is directed by the Pawtucket School Department and contains these schools: The Quality Hill section of Pawtucket is home to St.
Tolman now competes annually against its fellow Pawtucket enhance high school Charles E.
Pawtucket used to be home ome to Bishop Keough High School, a small all-girls catholic high school positioned in the Fairlawn neighborhood that is now closed.
Amtrak's Northeast Corridor and the MBTA's Providence/Stoughton Line run through Pawtucket, though there is no stop for either in the city.
Recently[when?] there have been discussions to have the "T" stop in Pawtucket at the old train station (which would be substantially refurbished) or at a platform elsewhere on the line.
Federal funding has been provided for preliminary planning of a MBTA station in the city, with a request for proposals expected in early 2011. Commuters can presently board MBTA trains at the South Attleboro stop, positioned off Newport Avenue just over the state line.
The MBTA operates a layover facility in Pawtucket for trains on the Providence/Stoughton Line where the trains are kept overnight.
The closest Amtrak station to Pawtucket is Providence Station.
RIPTA operates a core in downtown Pawtucket with routes to various parts of the town/city and to parts of close-by towns.
The # 1 (Hope/Eddy) Key Corridor route provides service from the Downtown Pawtucket core north to the MBTA Station at South Attleboro, Mass.
1 also traverse the part of Pawtucket.
Pawtucket's Downtown Circulator was a one-way loop through downtown; it is similar to British concepts of ring roads.
Hasbro, a Fortune 1000 toy and game making company, is headquartered in Pawtucket. Fox Point Pickles, a pickling company, is headquartered in Pawtucket.
Main article: List of citizens from Pawtucket, Rhode Island In the 1999 film Outside Providence, the movie's chief character, Tim Dunphy, interval up in Pawtucket.
Many different Pawtucket locations are seen in the movie, including the police station.
American Buffalo, a 1996 film, was filmed in Pawtucket.
Pawtucket has been incessantly referenced in the cartoon series Family Guy, specifically the "Pawtucket Brewery" and the character "Pawtucket Pat", though no brewery existed in the real Pawtucket when the show first made references to them.
The toy business that Peter Griffin worked for early in the series was called the Happy-Go-Lucky Toy Co, the name a loose parody based on the name of the Hasbro toy business based in Pawtucket.
In December 1993, a character on the NBC sitcom Nurses called Pawtucket a pit.
"City of Pawtucket, Rhode Island".
City of Pawtucket, Rhode Island.
"Profile for Pawtucket, Rhode Island, RI".
"Pawtucket, Rhode Island".
Illustrated History of Pawtucket, Central Falls and Vicinity.
"Pawtucket School Department District Homepage".
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Pawtucket, Rhode Island.
Pawtucket travel guide from Wikivoyage Pawtucket, Rhode Island at DMOZ Municipalities and communities of Providence County, Rhode Island, United States State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations
Categories:
Pawtucket, Rhode Island - Cape Verdean American history - Cities in Providence County, Rhode Island - Cities in Rhode Island - Early American industrialized centers - History of the textile trade - Providence urbane area
|