Neighborhoods in Providence

Neighborhoods in Providence

The city of Providence, Rhode Island has 25 official neighborhoods. [cite web | url=http://www.providenceri.com/Neighborhoods/NeighborhoodMap_c.html |publisher=City of Providence | title=Providence Neighborhoods|accessdate = 2007-01-17]


* Blackstone
* Charles
* College Hill
* Downtown
* Elmhurst
* Elmwood
* Federal Hill
* Fox Point
* Hartford
* Hope (Summit)
* Lower South Providence
* Manton
* Mount Hope
* Mount Pleasant
* Olneyville
* Reservoir
* Silver Lake
* Smith Hill
* South Elmwood
* Upper South Providence
* Valley
* Wanskuck
* Washington Park
* Wayland
* West End

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. [cite web| url=http://204.17.79.244/profiles/altnames.html Providence Neighborhood Profiles|title=Alternative Neighborhood Names | publisher=The Providence Plan | year=2007 | accessdate = 2007-01-31]

* 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. [ [http://204.17.79.244/profiles/altnames.html Providence Neighborhood Profiles ] ] [ [http://www.jewelrydistrict.org/ The Jewelry District ] ]

* North End - sometimes given collectively to the neighborhoods of Charles and Wanshuck. [ [http://204.17.79.244/profiles/altnames.html Providence Neighborhood Profiles ] ]

* South Side or South Providence - region consisting of the neighborhoods of Elmwood, Lower South Providence, Upper South Providence, and West End. [ [http://204.17.79.244/profiles/altnames.html Providence Neighborhood Profiles ] ]

* West Broadway - an area of Federal Hill and West End along the western portion of Westminster Street. [ [http://www.providenceri.com/Neighborhoods/westbrd.html Providence Neighborhoods: West Broadway ] ] [ [http://www.wbna.org/ WBNA - Home ] ]

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.

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