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Original Land Grants of the South Side of Severn River
DOCUMENT Citation Only Caleb Dorsey.

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Revisiting Providence Cove Lands: Lessons in Curation and the Potential of Existing Collections. (2018)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Danielle Cathcart. Heather Olson.

The Providence Cove Lands Archaeological District (RI 935) is located at the confluence of the Moshassuck and Woonasquatucket Rivers near the State House in Providence, Rhode Island. Between 1981-2, De Leuw, Cather/Parsons (DCP) completed archaeological and environmental surveys of the District, focused primarily on two sites—Carpenter’s Point (RI 935A) and North Shore (RI 935B). Based on DCP’s findings, the Keeper of the National Register determined that the District is eligible for listing on...


The Snowtown Project: Remembering Providence’s Past (2022)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Heather L Olson.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Boxed but not Forgotten Redux or: The Importance and Usefulness of Exploring Old or Forgotten Collections" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In the early 1980s, archaeological excavations in downtown Providence, Rhode Island located the remains of early 19th century Snowtown, a mixed-race neighborhood most notable for a riot in 1831 between free African Americans and working-class whites. Recent collections...