Neighborhoods in Providence, Rhode Island
The city of Providence, Rhode Island has 25 official neighborhoods.[1]
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Smith Hill forms one of the neighborhoods on Providence's North End
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Map of Providence neighborhoods
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College Hill, on Providence's East Side overlooks Downtown
Many of these neighborhoods are often grouped together referred to collectively:
- East Side - region of Blackstone, Hope (aka Summit), Mount Hope, College Hill, Wayland, and Fox Point.[2]
- Jewelry District - the area around Davol Square. This area will be united with Downtown after the completion of the Iway project to move I-195 south.[3][4]
- North End - sometimes given collectively to the neighborhoods of Charles, Wanskuck, Smith Hill, Elmhurst, and Mount Pleasant.[3]
- South Side or South Providence - region consisting of the neighborhoods of Elmwood, Lower South Providence, Upper South Providence, West End, and Washington Park.[3]Elmwood is part of Providence's South Side
The oldest, highest density neighborhoods are either those close to downtown or proximate to the Woonasquatucket River, which provided a power source for early industrialization in Manton, Hartford, and Olneyville. More distant neighborhoods developed later, mostly as transportation as public horse car and streetcar lines were added.
References
- "Providence Neighborhoods". City of Providence. Retrieved 2007-01-17.
- "Providence Neighborhood Profiles: Alternative Neighborhood Names". The Providence Plan. 2007. Archived from the original on 2008-10-11. Retrieved 2007-01-31.
- Providence Neighborhood Profiles Archived 2007-09-28 at the Wayback Machine
- The Jewelry District
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