Mashapaug Pond
Providence's Mashapaug Pond has been forgotten and overlooked for decades, contaminated by industrial pollution and separated from the communities that surroun…
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Where Did West Elmwood Go?location_fillStaring at the endless concrete in the Huntington Expressway Industrial Park, it seems impossible that this wa…
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“Rhode Island Knows Now - THE NARRAGANSETT STILL EXISTS!”location_fillNative peoples had already lived on the land near Mashapaug Pond for many centuries when Roger Williams arrive… -
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Industrial Legacies: Environment and Economicslocation_fillIn 1980, up to $1.5 million worth of silver flowed from Providence factories into the Narragansett Bay, giving… -
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Geology and Topography of Mashapaug Pondlocation_fillWhat did Mashapaug Pond look like five years ago? Fifty years ago? Five hundred years ago? Five hundred millio… -
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Playing Around the Pondlocation_fillOn a frigid February in 1904, fifty riders and horses gathered at frozen Mashapaug Pond for an afternoon of ra… -
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“Mashapaug Pond is Sick”: Polluting the Ecosystemlocation_fillMashapaug Pond is at the center of a complex freshwater ecosystem. Underneath the pond’s calm green surface is… -
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Saving Murphy-Trainor Parklocation_fillWhen Liz Camp, a resident of the Reservoir Triangle neighborhood, heard that developers wanted to build over t… -
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Spiritual Cleansing: Religion at Mashapaug Pondlocation_fillIn the summers, Providence residents waded into Mashapaug Pond to get clean – or, more precisely, for spiritua… -
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Art, Performance, and Environmental Education Along Mashapaug’s Shorelocation_fillThe Urban Pond Procession’s (UPP) headquarters at Mashapaug Pond are nestled far away from the busy traffic of… -
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Old Traditions in a New Home: Immigration in Reservoir Trianglelocation_fillIn 1880, about 104,000 people lived in Providence. Thirty years later, the city’s population had more than dou… -
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Building a School, Building a Communitylocation_fillA school did not always stand on this ground. For nearly a century, the Gorham Manufacturing Company operated … -
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Gorham’s Toxic Legacylocation_fillRhode Island has a long history of industrial manufacturing. Slater Mill, on the banks of the Blackstone River… -
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Work, Welfare, and Resistancelocation_fillImagine walking around this site in 1899, when the Gorham Manufacturing Company was the most famous producer o… -
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Arepa to Zeppolelocation_fillWalking down Resevoir Avenue today, the sweet fragrance of Popeye's Chicken and Biscuits mixes with the aroma … -
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From Silver Spoons to Shell Casingslocation_fillIn 1873, an economic depression gripped the country and threatened the future of the Gorham Manufacturing Comp…
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