Download or read book Scituate Rhode Island written by Heritage Room Committee and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 1998-05-01 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scituate, Rhode Island, was first inhabited by the Nipmuc and Narragansett Indians. The first white settler, John Mathewson, came in 1694 and found a land of many ponds and streams. More emigrants came from Massachusetts in the early 1700s, and the town was incorporated in 1731. These hard-working settlers made their living from the land, coaxing apples, corn, and potatoes to grow from the hilly and rocky soil. Scituateas plentiful water resources brought manufacturing to the area in 1806, and 16 villages developed around the many mills that were established here. Scituateas abundant water supply also made it the chosen site for a reservoir to provide water for the growing needs of the city of Providence. By 1915, the City of Providence began to condemn by eminent domain over 25 square miles of Scituateas land area. Upon completion in 1926, the reservoir had flooded the villages and changed the way of life for the townspeople forever. The history of these so-called alost villagesa has not been shown in pictures before. Here, Heritage Room committee members Shirley D. Arnold, Eleanor R. Guy, and Ruth S. Rounds tell the story of the people who lost everything and how Scituate became what it is today.

Download or read book The History of Scituate R I written by Cyrus Walker and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The History of Scituate R I written by Cyrus Walker and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Town of Scituate written by Rhode Island. Department of Economic Development. Research Division and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 13 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A History of Scituate Rhode Island written by Barbara Sarkesian and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Scituate Reservoir written by Raymond A. Wolf and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2010-10-11 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1772, portions of Providence received water through a system of hollowed out logs. By 1869, seventeen years after Zachariah Allen campaigned for a public water supply, the public voted in favor of introducing water into the city from the Pawtuxet River in Cranston. By 1900, it was clear that more, purer water was needed. A public law was approved on April 21, 1915, creating the Providence Water Supply Board and granting the power to condemn 14,800 acres to create the Situate Reservoir. Today the reservoir is the largest inland body of water in Rhode Island, supplying over 40 billion gallons of water to residents.

Download or read book An Historical Address Delivered in Scituate Rhode Island July 4th 1876 written by Charles C. Beaman and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Lost Villages of Scituate written by Raymond A. Wolf and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2009-09-14 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1915, the general assembly appointed the Providence Water Supply Board to condemn 14,800 acres of land in rural Scituate. The hardworking people of the five villages were devastated. By December 1916, notices were delivered to the villagers stating that the homes and land they had owned for generations were to be taken and destroyed. Construction was well under way by 1921, and water was being stored by November 10, 1925. On September 30, 1926, the treatment plant began operation. It now serves more than 60 percent of Rhode Islanders. The $21 million project was the largest ever undertaken in the state at the time. The dam that annihilated the villages is 3,200 feet long and 100 feet high and holds back more than 40 billion gallons of water. Today these quiet villages lie up to 87 feet beneath the cold, dark waters of the Scituate Reservoir.

Download or read book Town of Scituate Rhode Island Monograph January 1970 written by Rhode Island Development Council. Research Division and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book An Historical Address Delivered in Scituate Rhode Island written by Charles Cotesworth Beaman and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-06-26 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1877.

Download or read book An Historical Address Delivered in Scituate Rhode Island July 4th 1876 At the Request of the Town Authorities written by Charles C. Beaman and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-06-26 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1877.

Download or read book Town of Scituate Rhode Island Monograph August 1978 written by Rhode Island. Department of Economic Development. Research Division and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book An Historical Address Delivered in Scituate Rhode Island Vol 2 Classic Reprint written by Charles C. Beaman and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-07 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from An Historical Address, Delivered in Scituate, Rhode Island, Vol. 2 The great republic of the world celebrates its first century to-day! It has invited all nations to participate in the occasion by an exhibition of the products and workmanship of their respective countries, in the city where the assembled Congress framed, adopted, and sent forth, July Fourth, 1776, their Declaration of Independence. It has selected an orator and poet, and other exercises appropriate to the event to take place in the same city. Our own State has requested, through its legislature, that every town in our borders should have a local celebration; and Congress and the President have sent a similar appeal to every town in the Union. The extraordinary growth of the country in the last century, the very high position it occupies to-day, the success on so large a scale, and for so long a period, of a free government, would seem to demand an uncommon manifestation of the nation, on the happy event of completing our first one hundred years; and that to-day our Union is perfect and complete, with not a single star blotted out from our banner, and many more added to the original thirteen, standing to-day stronger and more immovable than ever. It was with fear and trembling, one hundred years ago, that the delegates from the colonies assembled in a small hall in Philadelphia, put forth their immortal Declaration, July 4, 1776. They were wise and prudent men - some of them, as was our own Hopkins, advanced in years; a few, like Hancock, were rich. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book Town of Scituate Rhode Island Monograph June 1975 written by Rhode Island. Department of Economic Development. Research Division and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The History of Public Education of the Town of Scituate Rhode Island written by Cyril Edward Werntz and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book With Their Usual Ardor written by Robert Grandchamp and published by . This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Scituate Militia saved Providence from capture in December 1775; helped drive the British out of Narragansett Bay in 1776, and faced the enemy in their own state in 1778. Scituate also contributed over one hundred men to the Continental Army. G4091HB - $18.00