Coventry (Rhode Island)
Kent County
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Coventry is a city ( town) in Kent County, Rhode Iceland, United States. It is the city with the largest surface area in administrative area in Rhode Iceland.
Geography
Coventry is located west of Warwick on the southwestern edge of the Providence Metropolitan Area, a metropolitan area on the Atlantic Coast with 1.5 million inhabitants around Providence, about 40 km south-west of Boston and 200 miles north-east of New York. The city is well connected to the road, next to some State Routes in and around the metropolitan area Interstate 95 runs just east around it.
The city area is almost rectangular with the long side in west-east direction. The dimensions are about 7.5 × 21 km, the area is 161.5 km ². Due to the urban area of the Flat River, which is dammed at Flat River Reservoir runs. Also at a reservoir - the reservoir Coventry - is dammed a einmündender from southwest tributary, the Quidnick Brook.
The actual center of Coventry is a little closed-off settlement to the Flat River Reservoir. On the northeast side of the reservoir, the schools of Coventry, Coventry Coventry High School and Middle School, as well as the airfield of Coventry are. Near the locality Coventry Center on the west side of the reservoir is the dam of the reservoir Coventry. The city center is about 90 m above sea level. Because of the characteristics of administrative divisions of several New England villages lie in the city of Coventry, these are:
- Quidnick Village ( the oldest settlement )
- Anthony Village
- Arkwright Village
- Harris Village
- Washington Village
- Coventry Village Center
- Summit Village
- Greene Village.
Population
At the 2000 census Coventry had 33 668 inhabitants. More than 97 % of them were white. The per capita income was 22 091 U.S. dollars, 5.2% of the population lived below the poverty line.
History
The area was settled before colonization by Europeans from the Indian tribe of Narragansett. 1642 bought a group of Samuel Gorton in the so-called Shawomet Purchase an area in southern Rhode Iceland from the Narragansett chief Miantonomi. 1647 organized the settlers an administration under the name of Warwick, in 1741 took the settlers in what is now Coventry after a successful submission to the General Assembly of the management into their own hands.
Like many other cities and towns in Rhode Iceland benefited the Settlers of the hydropower plenty available, so that even in the area of Coventry was able to develop a small-scale industry of woolen and textile manufacturing and iron production, which gathered around some mills. Mills served as centers for the development of the villages of Coventry. Nevertheless, the city remained largely dominated by agriculture.
The West and the center of the urban area is still rural, but the East has become a sought-after residential area by virtue of its proximity to the Metropolitan Area, one of the highest growth rates statewide.
Sons and daughters of the town
- Henry B. Anthony, politician, governor of Rhode Iceland
- William Arnold Anthony, professor of physics and chemistry
- Warren O. Arnold, politician, Congressman for Rhode Iceland
- Henry P. Baldwin, politician, Governor of Michigan