Cranston (Rhode Island)
Providence County
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Cranston (formerly Pawtuxet ) is an American city in Rhode Iceland in Providence County. It is a part of the Providence Metropolitan Area, a metropolitan area around the city of Providence, with more than 1.5 million people on the Atlantic coast about 200 km northeast of New York.
Geography
Cranston is located on the west side of Narragansett Bay, which extends over a distance of about 40 km south of Providence and Rhode Iceland opens Sound into the Atlantic. The distance to almost due north of Cranston Providence town is about ten kilometers.
The city has an area of 77.5 km ². The urban area is supported by four motorways crosses: from Interstates I 95 and I 295, and the Rhode Iceland Routes RI 10 and RI 37 In addition, several federal highways run through the city. Railway transport plays no role in the transport system, because even though a line of Amtrak runs through the territory of Cranston, there is no stop. Public transport is handled primarily by bus lines of the Rhode Iceland Public Transit Authority ( RIPTA ).
The city has several historic attractions, including the National Register of Historic Places contained Sprague Mansion of the 18th century and one of the oldest houses in Rhode Iceland, the Thomas Fenner House of about 1677th In 1886 was in today's stage of the Pawtucket Racecourse of Narragansett Park opened, the first in the country.
Population
The 2000 census showed 79 269 inhabitants, Cranston, making it the third largest city in the state of Rhode Iceland. Almost 90 % of residents were white, the remaining portion was distributed almost equally on African- Americans, Asians and Hispanics. The per capita income was $ 21,978, slightly more than 7 % of the population were below the poverty line.
History
In 1638, Roger Williams bought together with 12 other men from the Narragansett Indians in the " Pawtuxet Purchase" (paraphrased: Pawtuxet land purchase) the area in the "South Woods ". This area is now the eastern part of present-day Cranston, including the Pawtuxet Village, which is located in part on the territory of today's Warwick. William Arnold was the first European who settled on the present municipality, in 1638 he built a house about a mile north of the Pawtuxet Falls, near today's Warwick Avenue.
In 1662, the western part of the municipal area of the present town was bought during the " Meschanticut Purchase". As in this treaty the boundaries were not accurately described, resulted in a year-long dispute, which was settled only in 1714, so that the southern and western boundary Cranston could be established.
1754, the Cranston community was founded as a self-governing territory in the modern sense. She had at that time 1460 inhabitants. With the establishment of the northern boundary was fixed, which has, however, still changed over time, because it included at this time also parts of South Providence, Elmwood and Washington Park. The city received city rights in 1910.
Sons and daughters of the town
- Robert Aldrich, director
- Jack Capuano, ice hockey player and coach
- Hugh Duffy, baseball player and manager in Major League Baseball
- Carl V. Dupré, Writer
- Rob Gaudreau, hockey player
- George Masso, Jazz Musicians
- Vinny Pazienza, boxing champion in the light, light middleweight, and super middleweight