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Cumberland, RI - History


We would like to provide the residents of  Cumberland  a basic history overview.


Welcome to the Cumberland Home page. The Cumberland Home page provides as much information as possible on Cumberland. Knowing Cumberland’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Cumberland’s Home page, you will also find Cumberland’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.

Cumberland has a population of 34980. 48% of Cumberland’s inhabitants are Male, and 52 are female. 56.5% of Cumberland is married and 77.1% own their own home. The Average Home price is $310,488, and the average rent is $993. Household median income in Cumberland is $96,936, and the individual median income is $43,787. Cumberland’s Ethnic is the following: White(87.7%), Hispanic(10%), Asian(3.7%), Multiple(3.3%), Black(2.8%), Other(2.4%).


Cumberland was originally settled as part of Wrentham, Massachusetts, which was purchased from the local Indigenous Americans by the Plymouth Colony. It was later transferred to Rhode Island as part of a long-running boundary dispute. The town was named in honor of Prince William, Duke of Cumberland.William Blackstone (also spelled William Blaxton in colonial times) was the first European to settle and live in Cumberland.


(He was also the first European to have settled in Boston, but left when he and the newly arrived Puritans disagreed about religion.) He preached his brand of tolerant Christianity under an oak tree that became an inspiration to Christians worldwide. He lived on a farm in the Lonsdale area of Cumberland, where he cultivated the first variety of American apples, the Yellow Sweeting.


The site of his home is now occupied by the Ann & Hope mill. The popular tourist destination "Nine Men's Misery" is a tomb found on the grounds of a former Trappist monastery (Abbey of Our Lady of the Valley), part of which was destroyed in a fire in 1950. The Trappists sold the monastery and grounds to the town and part of the building was converted into the Edward J.


Hayden Library, aka Cumberland Public Library in 1976. This combined three smaller libraries into one. Cumberland was the site of iron works that made cannons and cannonballs for the French and Indian War and the American Revolution. Additionally, Cumberland (along with the neighboring towns of Central Falls, RI, Lincoln, RI, and Attleboro, Massachusetts) was the home of the Valley Falls Company, which is the original antecedent of Berkshire Hathaway, now one of the world's largest and most successful companies. A machine shop in Cumberland made the first power looms for woolens in America.


These were reportedly used at the Capron Mill in Uxbridge, around 1820, that burned in a fire in 2007. Cumberland is home to the headquarters and original location of the Ann & Hope chain of discount stores which claims to be the first chain of discount department stores in America and was founded in 1955. Cumberland is in the lower Blackstone Valley of Rhode Island and in the John H.


Chafee, Blackstone River Valley National Heritage Corridor, New England's historic National Park area. Aaron Fricke was denied a request to bring a same-sex date to a school prom at Cumberland High School 1979. In an early legal victory for LGBT rights, a federal court held that such a denial violated the student's free speech rights, in Fricke v.


Lynch. In the summers of 2011 and 2014, the Cumberland American Little League baseball team, led by coach David Belisle (both times), won the New England Regional Little League Baseball Championship and went on to play in the Little League World Series.


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