Smithfield, Rhode Island Smithfield, Rhode Island Location in Providence County and the state of Rhode Island.
Location in Providence County and the state of Rhode Island.
Country United States State Rhode Island The town of Smithfield is positioned in Providence County, Rhode Island, United States.
Smithfield is the home of Bryant University, a private four year college.
The region comprising modern-day Smithfield was first settled in 1636 by a several British colonists, including John Steere as a farming improve and titled after Smithfield, London.
The region was inside the boundaries of Providence until 1731 when Smithfield was incorporated as a separate town.
There was an active Quaker improve in early 18th century Smithfield that extended along the Great Road, from what is today Woonsocket, north into south Uxbridge, Massachusetts.
In the mid-19th century the suburbs of North Smithfield, Rhode Island, and Lincoln, Rhode Island, became separate towns.
The colonial ghost town of Hanton City is positioned inside the boundaries of present-day Smithfield, but was a completely separate improve in the eighteenth century.
A Revolutionary war soldier, from the Smithfield side of the Massachusetts border, Captain James Buxton, ended up as a Massachusetts militiaman and Continental Army veteran, who was deeded 300 acres in Worcester County by Governor John Hancock.
For this reason Buxton was lost to the history of Rhode Island Revolutionary soldiers.(see South Uxbridge history).
As of the 2010 United States Census, Smithfield has 21,430 inhabitants with a median age of 42 years and 16.9% of the populace under the age of 18.
Smithfield contains four enhance elementary schools, a middle school and a enhance high school, which was ranked 17th out of 52 high schools in Rhode Island in 2006. St.
Bryant University, a private college with programs in company and the arts and sciences, is positioned in Smithfield.
In 1971, the University moved to its current ground in Smithfield when the founder of Tupperware, Earl Silas Tupper, a Bryant alumnus, donated the current 428 acres (1.73 km2) of territory to be the new campus.
The old Emin Homestead and Captain Joseph Mowry homestead occupied much of the territory that makes up the present day Smithfield campus.
Cyrus Aldrich, (1808 1871), born in Smithfield, United States Congressman from Minnesota Capron, (1841 1911), United States Congressman Machtley, (born 1948), United States Congressman Nuttall, (born 1953), United States Army Major General who served as Deputy Director of the Army National Guard and Deputy Commander of First Army Gina Raimondo, (born 1971), 75th Governor of Rhode Island United States Enumeration Bureau.
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"Enumeration of Population and Housing".
"Rhode Island: 2010 Summary Population and Housing Characteristics" (PDF).
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