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Providence, RI - History


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


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

Providence has a population of 1204385. 47.9% of Providence’s inhabitants are Male, and 52.1 are female. 31.4% of Providence is married and 37.8% own their own home. The Average Home price is $226,683, and the average rent is $1,015. Household median income in Providence is $49,065, and the individual median income is $24,891. Providence’s Ethnic is the following: White(53.2%), Hispanic(43.5%), Other(16.4%), Black(16.1%), Multiple(7.8%), Asian(5.6%), Native(0.7%), Pacific(0.2%).


Providence is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Rhode Island. One of the oldest cities in New England, it was founded in 1636 by Roger Williams, a Reformed Baptist theologian and religious exile from the Massachusetts Bay Colony. He named the area in honor of "God's merciful Providence" which he believed was responsible for revealing such a haven for him and his followers.


The city developed as a busy port as it is situated at the mouth of the Providence River in Providence County, at the head of Narragansett Bay. Providence was one of the first cities in the country to industrialize and became noted for its textile manufacturing and subsequent machine tool, jewelry, and silverware industries.


Today, the city of Providence is home to eight hospitals and eight institutions of higher learning which have shifted the city's economy into service industries, though it still retains some manufacturing activity. At the 2020 census, Providence had a population of 190,934, making it the third-most-populous city in New England after Boston and Worcester, Massachusetts.


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