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"...it is essential to the health of the neighborhood that they be not polluted by dumping or the crowding of buildings on their shores."

-Report of the Board of Metropolitan Park Commissioners to the Rhode Island General Assembly at its January…

Wilbur Jennings, the Councilman for Ward 8 (Elmwood, Reservoir, West End) on the Providence City Council, is a long-time resident of the neighborhoods near Mashapaug Pond. In this excerpt, he shares some of his childhood memories, his thoughts about…

Do you have stories of Mashapaug Pond, the Gorham Manufacturing Company, and Providence's Reservoir Triangle and West End? What was there before the industrial park next to Mashapaug Pond? Did you participate in the Tracing Mashapaug project? Join us…