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Statue of brown bear, Brown University
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1923
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Bent Gorham silverware
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Research papers
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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 railroad tracks skirting Mashapaug Pond were built in 1848 and, unlike many tracks in the region, continue to be heavily used today as part of Amtrak’s Northeast Regional line. Prior to the construction of these tracks, rail service in Providence was limited to the Boston and Providence Railroad. That line began (and ended) at a terminal in Fox Point and then ran east to East Providence and Seekonk before heading north to Boston. Transportation to New York was only available by taking a steam ferry around Port Judith, RI up the Providence River to the Fox Point/India Point terminal. In 1837, the Stonington Line opened on the Providence River’s opposite bank, connecting New York and Boston by rail with only one short break: the ferry crossing of the Providence River from a pier near Roger Williams Park to India Point.
In 1844, the Providence and Worcester Railroad Company was incorporated with the goal of bringing railroad tracks and a station to downtown Providence. Union Station was completed in 1847 (although it burned down in 1896, replaced by a new Union Station which still stands next to Kennedy Plaza), and new lines were needed to service the new station. The tracks near Mashapaug Pond were part of this effort to complete a continuous line of rail service from New York to Boston. Construction completed in 1848, building off a fork from the existing Stonington Line and heading north around the pond to Providence’s city center. In 1893, the New York, New Haven, and Hartford Railroad, or NYNH&H, incorporated the tracks. Freight and passenger service continued regularly as the line provided a convenient bridge between existing track networks in the Northeast.
Meanwhile, the Gorham Silver Company was outgrowing its facility in downtown Providence. On May 18, 1888, the board decided to build a new plant, at the time the world’s largest fine silver factory. Known as the Elmwood Plant, the Gorham Manufacturing Company constructed their factory on Mashapaug Pond in 1889, complete with one rail line running between buildings. This connected the plant to the main NYNH&H line, and an 1895 atlas seems to show Gorham as the only factory connected to the railroad. Perhaps the location between Mashapaug Pond and the busy railroad line was especially desirable. By the 1937 atlas’s printing, Goff Building Material and F.D. McKendall Lumber Company both show similar rail connections further south.
The NYNH&H was absorbed by Penn Central in 1969, and in 1976 these tracks connecting major Northeast cities were bought by Amtrak and the State of Rhode Island for passenger use. Freight use is managed by the Providence and Worcester Railroad. A 1994 RIDOT study reports the track in excellent condition, weighing in at 140 lbs./yd. with a crushed stone bed and concrete ties.
[see attached file for further research and bibliography]
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Railroad Lines by Mashapaug Pond
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What is the history of the railroad line that winds along the north and east side of the pond?
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Katharine Mead
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Gorham fork mold
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Photograph of Gorham employees
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Receiving watch as reward for years of service to company. Date uncertain.
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Tagliaferri family tree
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Paolo Tagliaferri
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Marriage certificate
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Donated by Robin Tagliaferri, whose grandfather Paolo worked at Gorham. He married Zelinda Fantozzi on July 3, 1921.
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1921; certified by Providence City Registrar on September 13, 1940
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Oral history interviews
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A collection of excerpts from oral history interviews conducted by Brown University students in the class Oral History and Community Memory during the fall of 2011. We interviewed past and present residents of the Reservoir Triangle neighborhood and others with connections to Mashapaug Pond and the Gorham Manufacturing Company site.
Please check back often, since we will continue to add new clips to the site.
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Maria Quintero
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Robin Tagliaferri
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John Nicholas Brown Center, 357 Benefit Street, Providence, RI
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Robin Tagliaferri: He told stories about – well we believe, and my grandmother maybe reinforcing this, was that when he was was often mowing the lawn say on a lawn tractor type thing. That he'd hear some chinking noises. He would stop the lawn mower and lo-and-behold he would find on the ground silverware.
Forks and knives and spoons and probably things that people in the factory were tossing out that maybe they would go and pick it up on their way home from work, and they could make themselves maybe a set of silverware in time. My grandfather would collect them all. And we actually did have a big chunk of them at the house. They might still be saved. My dad might still have them. But they would be odd things here and there that someone would toss out the window and he would find them because they would jam in the lawnmower. So that was a fun story too.
So really outside of that just hard working people, setbacks of course but they were able to purchase their own house and have this wonderful property. So it was a, I think, a hard life. Lots of hard work but it was one that immigrant families did then and do now.
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Interview with Robin Tagliaferri
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Robin Tagliaferri shares stories about the experiences of her grandfather, Paolo, at the Gorham Manufacturing Company as he transitioned into working as the gardener. Paolo and Zelinda Tagliaferri were Italian immigrants to the United States at the turn of the 20th century. Paolo spend most of his life working for Gorham. He worked creatively in the Bronze foundry until he hurt his back and then served as the on site gardener. The strong family connection to Gorham is still remnant three generations later in Robin Tagliaferri. Robin attributes her artistic talents to her grandfather's own creativity and currently serves as the Executive Director at the Forbes House Museum in Milton, Massachusetts.
Date
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November 1, 2011
Family
Gorham
Immigration
Paolo Tagliaferri