Cumberland (Rhode Island)

Providence County

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Cumberland is a city ( town) in Providence County, Rhode Iceland in the United States. It is located in the northeast of the state of Rhode Iceland on the border with Massachusetts, about 200 km northeast of New York.

Geography

The urban area of ​​Cumberland is 73.2 km ² and is located on the east side of the just west of Cumberland flowing past Blackstone River in Blackstone Valley, an area with many historic protected areas in New England. The nearest major cities are Woonsocket, about five kilometers to the north of Cumberland, and Providence, about ten kilometers to the south. The main transport links is done via Interstate I-295, a relief stretches of I-95 which runs approximately two kilometers south of Cumberland in the east-west direction.

The city has five elementary schools, two middle schools and the Cumberland High School. In addition, there is a Roman Catholic private school that Mercymount Country Day School, in Cumberland. In the urban area about a dozen buildings on the National Register of Historic Places are enrolled.

The mineral Cumberlandit, an iron mineral, occurs in the city of Cumberland, and is named after the city. Another geological feature is the Diamond Hill, a massive disruption of white quartz rock, which is now in a city park.

Population

In the 2000 census, Cumberland had 31 840 inhabitants. Almost 97 % of them were white, the remainder were African - Americans and Asians, as well as minor amounts of other ethnic groups. The per capita income was $ 25,592, nearly three percent of the population lived below the poverty line. Cumberland has a large and active community formerly Portuguese immigrants.

History

On the site of present-day Cumberland - then still part of Rehoboth, Massachusetts - was the first white settlement in Rhode Iceland instead. The settlers William Blaxton had settled there before the Pilgrims arrived. As of 1641, the actual settlement phase began, the settlement area grew by purchases of the early settlers from the Indians to. The settlement area under the name of Attleborough Gore in 1667 for the first time split in 1746 after a further division of the name Cumberland was used and where the settlement area of ​​the city. From 1828 Pawtucket was independent.

Cumberland is the birthplace of Bobby Farrelly, a screenwriter, film producer and film director.