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Lucy Boltz
Ora Star Boncore
Hannah Burn
Ria Fulton
Adriana Isaza
Lizzy Landau
Jen Lawrence
Chang Lu
Katharine Mead
Araceli Mendez
Aditi Pinto
Julie Pittman
Maria Quintero
Anya Ventura
Anna Wada
Nate Weisenberg
Sarah Yahm
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An editorial in the Narragansett Dawn, a 30s periodical issued by Princess Red Wing of South County, ends on an exclamatory note: THE NARRAGANSETT TRIBE STILL EXISTS!
In the late 1700s, Mashapaug Pond was an Indian town. Villages grew up around rivers, lakes, and ponds, supplying the fresh water needed for cooking, bathing, fishing, and boating. Marine life thrived. The pond constituted the Southwest border of the original boundary of Indian land, tribal elder Tall Oak Weeden informed me, and has long been the location of choice for Indians moving to Rhode Island. At some point in the 1930s, a group of indigenous people gathered at Mashapaug Pond. The archivists, librarians, professors, and elders I have spoke to thus far have not known why. The Providence Journal and the Evening Bulletin have yielded no answers. And now, ironically on Columbus Day, when the doors of the libraries and historical societies are closed, that story still remains a mystery to me.
[See attached file for more information and bibliography]
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In the 1930s, a gathering of several indigenous groups (Narragansett, Nip-muck, Wampanoag, Passamaquoddy, Penobscot, Misquamicut, Niantic) occurred at Mashapaug Pond. Why did they gather and what was the outcome?
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Mashapaug Pond
Native American
Native American history
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Lucy Boltz
Ora Star Boncore
Hannah Burn
Ria Fulton
Adriana Isaza
Lizzy Landau
Jen Lawrence
Chang Lu
Katharine Mead
Araceli Mendez
Aditi Pinto
Julie Pittman
Maria Quintero
Anya Ventura
Anna Wada
Nate Weisenberg
Sarah Yahm
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Currently the Mashapaug Commons Plaza is a retail complex that appears to be, for the most part, vacant. The Mashapaug Commons plaza was built as the “first part of the [former Gorham Manufacturing Company] site to be remediated and developed” in 2001.
The Mashapaug Commons plaza is located on what was once made up the largest portion of the Gorham Manufacturing Company site, where the main production was related to silver. Gorham Manufacturing Company shut down it's Providence, Rhode Island facilities in 1985 under the ownership of conglomerate Textron Incorporated. After being long abandoned the land of the former Gorham Manufacturing Company site was titled over to the City of Providence in 1991 as part of a tax estate sale. It was by the Providence Redevelopment Agency determined that it was “in the public interest and necessary for the public use are that such real property or interest therein is included in the redevelopment of plat of land condemned for the Gorham Project approved under the provisions of said 'Redevelopment Act of 1956' by the City Council of the City of Providence.” With this resolution towards improving the property the former Gorham Manufacturing Company began to undergo demolition in 1998. The construction of a retail complex falls under the various acceptable types of redevelopment that the City of Providence could allow that would be defined as construction for the public interest. Furthermore Textron had become responsible for cleaning up the site up to industrial and commercial standards, which are somewhat lower than those of other “public interest” redevelopment.
{See attached file for more information and bibliography]
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Maria Quintero
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Lucy Boltz
Ora Star Boncore
Hannah Burn
Ria Fulton
Adriana Isaza
Lizzy Landau
Jen Lawrence
Chang Lu
Katharine Mead
Araceli Mendez
Aditi Pinto
Julie Pittman
Maria Quintero
Anya Ventura
Anna Wada
Nate Weisenberg
Sarah Yahm
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The Church of the Nazarene First is a tiny, red brick building structure on 170 Reservoir Avenue. It is only slightly bigger than most buildings in the area and does not stand out as many churches tend to do. You could walk right by it, distracted by the other structures outside: the new Unisex salon and Reservoir Avenue School with a bold caption by Allen Shawn Feinstein gracing its wall. On a Sunday afternoon, the board outside the Church informs me of the Sunday school at 10 am, morning service at 10:45 am, Fellowship meeting at 4 pm and that the Spanish Service in the evening was cancelled. It was 10:20 am when I arrived and after a friendly introduction to an elderly woman, the pastor led me straight to the basement, where his wife was leading a bible session with four girls around my age.
[See attached file for more information, bibliography, and appendix].
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What is the history of the Church of the Nazarene First (170 Reservoir Ave)? Is it the only church to occupy this site? What is its role in the neighborhood?
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Aditi Pinto
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Lucy Boltz
Ora Star Boncore
Hannah Burn
Ria Fulton
Adriana Isaza
Lizzy Landau
Jen Lawrence
Chang Lu
Katharine Mead
Araceli Mendez
Aditi Pinto
Julie Pittman
Maria Quintero
Anya Ventura
Anna Wada
Nate Weisenberg
Sarah Yahm
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The Gorham Manufacturing Company did not begin production of hollowware until 1850. The teapot, which became an integral part of Gorham’s production, was one of the first hollowware products created there. By 1910, the production of all hollowware products was both mechanized and done by hand.
Gorham’s success can be attributed to its highly mechanized process of silver production that made fine silverware more affordable. During the period around the turn of the century, Gorham was mainly producing pieces in their Art Nouveau and Athenic lines. There are no records specific to Gorham that outline the process of silver production. However, the mechanized processes of silver production are fairly similar across companies and have not changed dramatically in the past century. All hollowware products, including a tea set, were made using the same methods. First, a mixture of silver ore was put into a ceramic crucible that was then heated in a gas furnace for one to two hours. Historically, copper has been used to supplement the silver as a way to strengthen and increase the durability of the product. Once the silver mixture was molten, it was then poured into cast iron “ingot” molds, 10 inches long, 6 inches wide, and 1 ½ inches thick for hollowware pieces. After cooling, the silver mixture or “ingot” was removed from the mold, ready to be rolled out. Large silver ingots were generally rolled on two-roll mills, until the silver slab was .036 to .045 inches thick.
[See attached file for more information and bibliography]
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Gorham Hollowware Production
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What was the process of creating a Gorham silver tea set in 1910?
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Jen Lawrence
Gorham
Martelé line
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Lucy Boltz
Ora Star Boncore
Hannah Burn
Ria Fulton
Adriana Isaza
Lizzy Landau
Jen Lawrence
Chang Lu
Katharine Mead
Araceli Mendez
Aditi Pinto
Julie Pittman
Maria Quintero
Anya Ventura
Anna Wada
Nate Weisenberg
Sarah Yahm
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Today, Gorham Manufacturing Company’s Elmwood factory has vanished from the Providence landscape, as its Steeple Street location (now a parking lot)[1] did before it. The Elmwood site is most noteworthy today for the toxic environmental legacy it has left the neighborhoods near Mashapaug Pond. Yet Gorham’s presence in Providence remains strong, from its objects and monuments in silver, bronze, and stained glass to its records and papers in Providence museums and libraries...
[See attached file for more information and a map of locations]
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Gorham Sites in Providence
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Where, in the city of Providence, are objects and papers produced by the Gorham Company? Include libraries, museums, and archival holdings as well as outdoor spaces. Include a map of locations.
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Nate Weisenberg
Bronze Division
City of Providence
Gorham
Gorham archive
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Stained glass
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Lucy Boltz
Ora Star Boncore
Hannah Burn
Ria Fulton
Adriana Isaza
Lizzy Landau
Jen Lawrence
Chang Lu
Katharine Mead
Araceli Mendez
Aditi Pinto
Julie Pittman
Maria Quintero
Anya Ventura
Anna Wada
Nate Weisenberg
Sarah Yahm
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Murphy-Trainor Park, 4.6 acres of woods on the southwest side of the Mashapaug pond, was purchased by the city and developed into a passive recreation area in June 1994 under a five-year fight by the Mashapaug Pond Action Committee, which was a sub-branch of the Reservoir Triangle Neighborhood Association, to save the woodland from being developed into townhouses.
J.T. Owens Park was built by the state in 1950s and was taken over by the Parks Department in 1994. The park is dedicated to John T. Owens who was a famous baseball player in amateur local baseball team in Providence. People used to call him “Happy Owens”. Owens became a serviceman and was killed in WWII. In Providence City Directory, John T. Owens’s name disappeared after 1956.
[See attached file for more information and references]
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Murphy-Trainor and J.T. Owens Parks
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What is the history of the Murphy-Trainor Memorial Park (dedicated 1994) and the J.T. Owens Park? How and why were they created?
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Chang Lu
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Mashapaug Pond
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Lucy Boltz
Ora Star Boncore
Hannah Burn
Ria Fulton
Adriana Isaza
Lizzy Landau
Jen Lawrence
Chang Lu
Katharine Mead
Araceli Mendez
Aditi Pinto
Julie Pittman
Maria Quintero
Anya Ventura
Anna Wada
Nate Weisenberg
Sarah Yahm
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The Official Redevelopment Plan for Mashapaug Pond was approved on December 2, 1960 after several government studies deemed the area “blighted,” and recommended rezoning.
The 1950s were a period of decay in Providence. After World War II, American industry and infrastructure continued to develop and thrive but not in Providence. Industries relocated to the suburbs and other states, aided by the new interstate highway system. As a result, Providence saw a tremendous decrease in population. Emigration to the area did not just slow, it reversed: by the end of 1949 the population reached 257,000; in 1960 207,495; and in 1970 179,116. Between December 1952 and November of 1954, the total employment in Providence declined 7.8%; manufacturing declined almost 10%. [1]
The Federal Urban Renewal Project, administered by the Providence Redevelopment Agency, attempted to reverse the economic decline. They hoped to attract new industries, businesses and residents to the area by demolishing and rebuilding structures and zoning parking areas so the new areas would be more accessible to cars: “if Providence wishes to obtain more jobs to offset recent declines in employment and at the same time wishes to strengthen its tax base, it should consider seriously means for obtaining additional industrial plants.”[2]
[See attached files for more information, a map of proposed land use and the project area, as well as an article about industrial parks and photographs from the site].
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The Industrial Park
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When and why was the industrial park built on the northwest edge of the pond? What did it replace?
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Lizzy Landau
City of Providence
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industrial park
Mashapaug Pond
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Lucy Boltz
Ora Star Boncore
Hannah Burn
Ria Fulton
Adriana Isaza
Lizzy Landau
Jen Lawrence
Chang Lu
Katharine Mead
Araceli Mendez
Aditi Pinto
Julie Pittman
Maria Quintero
Anya Ventura
Anna Wada
Nate Weisenberg
Sarah Yahm
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The Ocean State Job Lots Plaza, as we know it, came into existence in 1989. However, the original building that now houses Ocean State Job Lot was built in 1959. The adjoining building was built in 1960. The parking lot itself was built in 1980 and the remaining buildings were all built in 1989. [1]
To understand why the Plaza was built on Reservoir Avenue, the question arises: Why do the businesses in this plaza belong in this neighborhood? To break it down into its component parts: Why would they represent a profitable opportunity for real estate developers and merchants? At the same time, why are these businesses suitable for the Reservoir Avenue neighborhood?
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Ocean State Job Lot Plaza
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When and why was the Ocean State Job Lot plaza built? What did it replace?
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Julie Pittman
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Students researched and wrote assignments on various topics related to Mashapaug Pond, the Gorham Manufacturing Company, and the Reservoir Triangle neighborhood.
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Lucy Boltz
Ora Star Boncore
Hannah Burn
Ria Fulton
Adriana Isaza
Lizzy Landau
Jen Lawrence
Chang Lu
Katharine Mead
Araceli Mendez
Aditi Pinto
Julie Pittman
Maria Quintero
Anya Ventura
Anna Wada
Nate Weisenberg
Sarah Yahm
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When I initially read my research questions for this paper, I instantly thought that this paper would be a breeze to write and would take very little time or effort to complete. Now, a few weeks, dozens of hours and countless failed attempts later, I couldn’t have been more wrong. Annie and Holly assigned me the following questions: “What is the history of the community boating center? When and why was it built? How has it been used?”, which at first glance seemed easy enough to answer. I started off my search for this information by doing a simple Google search, but quickly found that all mention of the phrases “Community Boating Center” and “Providence, RI” turn up information on the new Community Boating Center located at India Point Park.
After using Google, I searched ProQuest, the Rhode Island Historical Society website, the city archives and the Providence Journal website. Through the Providence Journal, I found several articles documenting Holly’s work with the pond and the Urban Pond Procession and eventually found a short quote about the boating center:
“The Community Boating Center, created in 2000, is a picturesque spot on the southern end of the pond. Unfortunately it is presently closed to the public. The Parks Department does not want to encourage boating on Mashapaug Pond. It is a fitting place to gather as it represents what the pond once was, and what it can be, if the community city and state work together to clean Mashapaug up.”
While it was refreshing to finally find some information on the Mashapaug Pond Community Boating Center, this one quote only really gave me less than a third of the information I needed for this paper. After learning this, I got a recommendation from Holly for someone I could contact about my project—namely the organization Groundwork Providence. The next day, I called up Groundwork Providence and talked to Ray Perreault, Program Director of Trees 2020, who claimed that Groundwork Providence had nothing to do with the creation of the Mashapaug Pond Community Boating Center. I also emailed Joe Vaughan, the Executive Director of Groundwork Providence, who said the same thing, but added that he had heard Groundwork Providence might have had something to do with the project, but it was before his time so he didn’t know. Ray told me I should talk to Beth Charlebois, Director of Neighborhood Parks and Recreation for the City of Providence, since she would probably know more than he would. At this point, I asked Holly for more advice on people I could contact and she suggested that I email and call Heather Gaydos, Joe Wojtanowski and Joe Baer. I tried to contact them all and none of them responded to me.
Finally, after losing all hope that I’d ever find anything substantial, one of the people I contacted responded to my email. Beth Charlebois emailed Robert McMahon, Superintendent of Parks and Recreation, on my behalf and got me some answers. On Friday morning, she sent me a message she had received from Robert stating:
“Built in 1999 to provide canoeing opportunities for Providence youth on the pond. Summer programs provided canoeing for about 200 kids/summer. Closed in 2006 per request of Rhode Island DEM because of concerns with toxic algae resulting from storm water runoff after rainstorms in the summer. Until phosphorus loads going into the pond from nearby land uses and roads are reduced the boating center will be closed.”
In the last hours before this paper was due, I finally got answers to my questions and was adequately capable of writing this paper. In the end, I finally found out that the Mashapaug Pond Community Boating Center was created in 1999, not 2000 like I had read earlier, so children could canoe, but was eventually closed down in 2006 because the pond was toxic.
Even though I finally found out what I needed to learn about the Mashapaug Pond Community Boating Center, the fact that the information was so hard to come by is very telling and reflects on the situation of the Mashapaug Pond Community Boating Center and Mashapaug Pond as a whole. Mashapaug Pond and the Community Boating Center have been mostly forgotten about and uncared for by the general populous. Even though the Mashapaug Pond Community Boating Center still physically exists, Groundwork Providence, the organization that helped create the boating center, has completely disassociated itself from the Community Boating Center. In addition, the fact that only a limited number of people know of the Mashapaug Pond Community Boating Center and those that do have any information on it are basically unreachable only adds to the lack of interest people have for the pond as a whole. While in the end I was eventually successful in finding the information I needed for this paper, the Mashapaug Pond Community Boating Center is all but forgotten by the general populous and the toxic pond that it sits on continues to exacerbate this by further pushing people away from the center. Even though the Mashapaug Pond Community Boating Center was intended to bring people together to celebrate and embrace the pond it lays on, it currently does the exact opposite.
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Mashapaug Community Boating Center
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What is the history of the community boating center? When and why was it built? How has it been used?
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Ora Star Boncore
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Mashapaug Pond
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Students researched and wrote assignments on various topics related to Mashapaug Pond, the Gorham Manufacturing Company, and the Reservoir Triangle neighborhood.
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Lucy Boltz
Ora Star Boncore
Hannah Burn
Ria Fulton
Adriana Isaza
Lizzy Landau
Jen Lawrence
Chang Lu
Katharine Mead
Araceli Mendez
Aditi Pinto
Julie Pittman
Maria Quintero
Anya Ventura
Anna Wada
Nate Weisenberg
Sarah Yahm
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The Jewish community in Rhode Island has a varied history reaching back to 1658 when Sephardic Jews came from Barbados to Providence after hearing of Roger Williams’ commitment to religious tolerance. While this community eventually declined by the early 1800s, a new Jewish immigrant wave came by the 1840s from Germany followed by a mainly Russian and Eastern European Jewish migration during the 1880s and continuing into the 1900s. This Jewish community has largely moved out of the urban area of the South Side, of Mashapaug Pond area to suburbs or the East Side of Providence paralleling financial advancement. The Jewish community remains active through the Jewish Community Center on Sessions Avenue and a number of synagogues on the East Side, but their presence in the South Side has dwindles- reflected in the current decision of how to deal with the abandoned temple on Broad Street, once a pride of the community. In response to an article about the abandoned synagogue, George M. Goodwin, an editor of the Jewish Historical Notes thought it fitting that the synagogue moved with the community: “Given the migration of Jews from the former North End and South Providence to the East Side after World War II, it was inevitable that Sons of Israel and David, known casually as Temple Beth-El, would relocate closer to its members.” He defended the community against “Mr. Brussat’s suggestion that Congregation Sons of Israel and David, founded in 1854, is in decline or in senescence is foolish,” by asserting that the community still thrives, though not in the South Side.
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The Jewish Community in Providence
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Congregation of the Sons of Israel and David Cemetery sits near the Pond, at 460 Reservoir Avenue. Why is it there? What is the Jewish history of the site?
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Lucy Boltz
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Congregation of the Sons of Israel and David Cemetery
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Jewish history
manufacturing
Providence Jewish community