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Johnston, RI - History


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


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

Johnston has a population of 29326. 48.3% of Johnston’s inhabitants are Male, and 51.7 are female. 43.6% of Johnston is married and 70.7% own their own home. The Average Home price is $239,332, and the average rent is $1,015. Household median income in Johnston is $68,859, and the individual median income is $38,614. Johnston’s Ethnic is the following: White(88.1%), Hispanic(10.3%), Multiple(5.5%), Asian(2.6%), Black(2.5%), Other(1.4%).


The area was first settled by English settlers in the seventeenth century as a farming community. In 1759 the town officially separated from Providence and was incorporated on March 6, 1759. Johnston was named for the current colonial attorney general, Augustus Johnston, who was later burned in effigy during the Stamp Act protests in 1765 and then fled Rhode Island as a Tory during the American Revolution in 1779.


The first house of worship in Johnston opened when the Baptist Meeting House in Belknap was constructed in 1771. During the American Revolution Rhode Island's only gunpowder mill was constructed in Graniteville, and the town hosted American General John Sullivan for a dinner in 1779 upon his departure from Rhode Island to fight in New York.


In 1790 the Belknap School, the first public school in the town, was founded. In 1791 the Providence and Norwich Turnpike (today's Plainfield Pike) was chartered.


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