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Splayed across seven hills on the Providence and
Seekonk rivers, PROVIDENCE was Rhode Island's
first settlement, founded "in commemoration of God's providence"
on land given to Roger Williams by the Narragansett Indians (his
insistence that Indians should be paid for their land being waived
in his own case). Now New England's fourth largest city, it has
been the state capital since 1901, and flourished
as one of the most important ports of call in the notorious "triangle
trade." Since Slater's invention of the water-powered textile
mill, port trade and industry have been the mainstays of the economy.
Today Ivy League Brown University and the Rhode
Island School of Design (RISD or "Rizdee")
give the place a certain cultural verve (although this admittedly
doesn't stray far beyond the immediate environs of College Hill
on the east bank of the river), and the many original colonial
homes on Benefit Street emphasize a historical
importance almost absent from the downtown across the river. Ethnic
diversity is provided by Little Italy on Federal
Hill, west of the river, and by fairly voluble Greek and Portuguese
and especially Cape Verdean communities.
