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Providence County, Rhode Island

Historic newspapers, landmarks, and county history layers for genealogists and local historians.

—newspaper titles
—digitized titles
448historic places
—earliest paper
1703formed
660,741pop. 2020
535cemeteries
—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 448 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1966; 15 are also National Historic Landmarks. Most listings are in or near Providence, Pawtucket, Woonsocket.

Summary generated automatically from the source data on this page.

Newspapers

Library of Congress

Newspaper directory data for Rhode Island is not yet loaded on this site. Browse Providence titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

263 of 448 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

448 listed properties
PropertyCityTypeListed
1761 MilestoneWoonsocketObject1982
Adams, John E., HousePawtucketBuilding1983
Albion Historic DistrictLincolnDistrict1984
Aldrich, Nelson W., House NHLProvidenceBuilding1976
All Saints Memorial ChurchProvidenceBuilding1980
Allen Street Historic DistrictWoonsocketDistrict1990
Allen, Candace, HouseProvidenceBuilding1973
Allen, Zachariah, HouseProvidenceBuilding1994
Allendale MillNorth ProvidenceDistrict1973
Allenville MillEsmondBuilding1972
American Brewing Company PlantProvidenceBuilding2016
American Street SchoolProvidenceBuilding1987
American Supply Company BuildingCentral FallsBuilding2017
Andrew Dickhaut Cottages Historic DistrictProvidenceDistrict1984
Andrews Mill Company PlantNorth SmithfieldBuilding2018
Andrews-Luther FarmScituateBuilding1985
Angell, Daniel, HouseJohnstonBuilding1975
Angell, Otis, GristmillNorth ProvidenceBuilding2017
Angell-Ballou HouseSmithfieldBuilding2004
Arcade, The NHLProvidenceBuilding1971
Arnold Mills Historic DistrictCumberlandDistrict1978
Arnold, Dexter, FarmsteadScituateBuilding1977
Arnold, Eleazer, House NHLLincolnBuilding1968
Arnold, Israel, HouseLincolnBuilding1970
Arnold, John, HouseWoonsocketBuilding1982
Arnold, Peleg, TavernUnion VillageBuilding1974
Arnold-Palmer HouseProvidenceBuilding1972
Art's AutoPawtucketBuilding1978
Ashton Historic DistrictCumberlandDistrict1984
Aylesworth ApartmentsProvidenceBuilding1982
Bailey, William L., HouseProvidenceBuilding1973
Ballou HouseLincolnBuilding1984
Ballou-Weatherhead HouseCumberland HillBuilding1993
Battey-Barden HouseScituateBuilding1980
Beaman and Smith Company MillProvidenceBuilding2006
Belknap SchoolJohnstonBuilding2010
Bell Street ChapelProvidenceBuilding1973
Beneficent Congregational ChurchProvidenceBuilding1972
Berkeley Mill VillageCumberland (Berkeley)District1972
Bernon Worsted MillWoonsocketBuilding2005
Bicknell-Armington Lightning Splitter HouseEast ProvidenceBuilding1980
Blackstone Boulevard Realty Plat Historic DistrictProvidenceDistrict1995
Blackstone Boulevard-Cole Avenue-Grotto Avenue Historic DistrictProvidenceDistrict2009
Blackstone CanalLincolnStructure1971
Blackstone Canal (Boundary Increase)ProvidenceStructure1991
Blackstone Park Historic DistrictProvidenceDistrict1998
Borders FarmFosterDistrict2009
Boston and Providence Railroad BridgeEast ProvidenceStructure1980
Brackett, Charles, HouseProvidenceBuilding1970
Bradley, George M., HouseProvidenceBuilding1972
Braitsch, William J. and Company, PlantProvidenceBuilding2016
Breezy Hill Site (RI-957)FosterSite1985
Brick SchoolhouseProvidenceBuilding1972
Bridge Mill Power PlantPawtucketBuilding1983
Bridgeton SchoolBurrillvilleBuilding2006
Bridgham FarmEast ProvidenceBuilding1980
Bridgham-Arch-Wilson Streets Historic DistrictProvidenceDistrict1988
Broadway-Armory Historic DistrictProvidenceDistrict1974
Broadway-Armory Historic District (Boundary Increase)ProvidenceDistrict2008
Brown Avenue Historic DistrictJohnstonDistrict1973
Brown and Sharpe Manufacturing Company ComplexProvidenceBuilding2003
Brown, John, House NHLProvidenceBuilding1968
Brown, Morris, HouseProvidenceBuilding1991
Brown, Moses, SchoolProvidenceBuilding1980
Burlingame-Noon HouseCumberlandBuilding1974
Burnham, G.A., HousePawtucketBuilding1983
Burrows BlockProvidenceBuilding1990
Butler HospitalProvidenceBuilding1976
Calvary Baptist ChurchProvidenceBuilding1980
Cappelli, A. F., BlockProvidenceBuilding1980
Carpenter, Lakeside, and Springvale CemeteriesEast ProvidenceSite1980
Carr, Dr. George W., HouseProvidenceBuilding1973
Cathedral of Saints Peter and PaulProvidenceBuilding1975
Cato Hill Historic DistrictWoonsocketDistrict1976
Cato Hill Historic District (Boundary Increase)WoonsocketDistrict1982
Central DinerProvidenceBuilding2010
Central Falls Congregational ChurchCentral FallsBuilding1976
Central Falls Mill Historic DistrictCentral FallsDistrict1976
Central Falls Mill Historic District (Boundary Increase)Central FallsDistrict2018
Central Street SchoolCentral FallsBuilding1979
Chemical Building, Fields Point Sewage Treatment PlantProvidenceBuilding1989
Chepachet Village Historic DistrictGlocesterDistrict1971
Cherry Valley Archeological Site, RI-279GlocesterSite1984
Childs-Brown HousePawtucketBuilding1983
Christ Episcopal ChurchProvidenceBuilding1976
Church Hill Grammar SchoolPawtucketBuilding2010
Church Hill Industrial DistrictPawtucketDistrict1982
Church Hill Industrial District (Boundary Increase)PawtucketDistrict2011
Clayville Historic DistrictFosterDistrict1988
Clemence-Irons HouseJohnstonBuilding1973
Cole, John, FarmCumberlandBuilding1977
College Hill Historic District NHLProvidenceDistrict1970
Collyer MonumentPawtucketObject1983
ColumbusProvidenceObject2001
Conant Thread-Coats & Clark Mill Complex DistrictPawtucketDistrict1983
Conant, Samuel B., HouseCentral FallsBuilding1979
Congdon Street Baptist ChurchProvidenceBuilding1971
Cooke, Amos, HouseScituateBuilding1979
Copley ChambersProvidenceBuilding2026
Corliss, John, HouseProvidenceBuilding1974
Corliss-Carrington House NHLProvidenceBuilding1970
Cornell-Randall-Bailey RoadhouseJohnstonBuilding1984
Covell Street SchoolProvidenceBuilding1976
Crandall, Lorenzo, HousePawtucketBuilding1984
Crescent Park Carousel NHLEast ProvidenceStructure1976
Cumberland Town Hall Historic DistrictCumberlandDistrict2019
Customhouse Historic DistrictProvidenceDistrict1975
Cutler, Susan S. & Edward J., HouseProvidenceBuilding2015
Daggett, Nathaniel, HouseEast ProvidenceBuilding1980
Darling, Henry, HouseWoonsocketBuilding1982
Davol Rubber CompanyProvidenceBuilding1980
Deming, Richard Henry, HouseProvidenceBuilding1980
Dennis, James, HouseEast ProvidenceBuilding1980
Dexter, Edward, HouseProvidenceBuilding1971
Dexter, Jeremiah, HouseProvidenceBuilding1976
District 6 SchoolhouseEast ProvidenceBuilding1980
Division Street BridgePawtucketStructure1983
Donwell’s Diner-Worcester Lunch Car Company Diner No. 774PawtucketBuilding2021
Dorrance, Capt. George, HouseFosterBuilding1972
Double L Site, RI-958ScituateSite1985
Dowler, Charles, HouseProvidenceBuilding1984
Downtown Pawtucket Historic DistrictPawtucketDistrict2007
Downtown Providence Historic DistrictProvidenceDistrict1984
Downtown Providence Historic District (Boundary Increase)ProvidenceDistrict2007
Downtown Providence Historic District (Boundary Increase)ProvidenceDistrict2012
Doyle Avenue Historic DistrictProvidenceDistrict1990
Dyerville MillProvidenceBuilding1979
Earnscliffe Woolen-Paragon Worsted Company Mill ComplexProvidenceBuilding2007
Eddy HomesteadJohnstonBuilding1986
Edgewood Historic District-Aberdeen PlatCranstonDistrict2016
Edgewood Historic District-Anstis Greene Estate PlatsCranstonDistrict2015
Edgewood Historic District-Arnold Farm PlatCranstonDistrict2010
Edgewood Historic District-Sally Greene Homestead PlatsCranstonDistrict2016
Edgewood Historic District-Shaw PlatCranstonDistrict2013
Edgewood Historic District-Taft Estate PlatCranstonDistrict2003
Edgewood Historic District-Taft Estate Plat (Boundary Increase)CranstonSite2014
Edgewood Yacht ClubCranstonBuilding1989
Elizabeth BuildingProvidenceBuilding1971
Elliot-Harris-Miner HouseLincolnBuilding1984
Elm Tree Plat Historic DistrictEast ProvidenceDistrict2015
Elmgrove Gardens Historic DistrictProvidenceDistrict2005
Elmwood Historic DistrictProvidenceDistrict1980
Ernest Street Sewage Pumping StationProvidenceBuilding1989
Esten-Bowen HouseBurrillvilleBuilding2011
Exchange Street Historic DistrictPawtucketDistrict2002
Fales, David G., HouseCentral FallsBuilding1979
Farnum, Edwin H., HouseJohnstonBuilding1974
Federal BuildingProvidenceBuilding1972
Federal Street Historic DistrictWoonsocketDistrict2024
Fenner, Thomas, HouseCranstonBuilding1990
Fifth Ward WardroomPawtucketBuilding1983
Fire Station No. 4PawtucketBuilding1983
First Baptist Meetinghouse NHLProvidenceBuilding1966
First Universalist ChurchProvidenceBuilding1977
First Universalist ChurchWoonsocketBuilding2020
First Ward WardroomPawtucketBuilding1983
Fleur-de-Lis Studios NHLProvidenceBuilding1992
Forestdale Mill Village Historic DistrictNorth SmithfieldDistrict1972
Foster Center Historic DistrictFosterDistrict1974
Foster-Payne HousePawtucketBuilding1983
Freeman Plat Historic DistrictProvidenceDistrict1995
French Worsted Company Mill Historic DistrictWoonsocketDistrict2008
Fuller HousesPawtucketBuilding1983
Furnace Carolina SiteCumberlandSite1993
Furnace Hill Brook Historic and Archeological DistrictCranstonDistrict1980
Gately BuildingPawtucketBuilding2012
Gaulin, Alphonse, Jr., HouseWoonsocketBuilding1982
General Ice Cream Corporation BuildingProvidenceBuilding2008
Georgiaville Historic DistrictSmithfieldDistrict1985
Gilbane's Service Center BuildingPawtucketBuilding1983
Glenark MillsWoonsocketBuilding1989
Glocester Town PoundGlocesterStructure1970
Gloria Dei Evangelical Lutheran ChurchProvidenceBuilding1984
Grace ChurchProvidenceBuilding1972
Great Road Historic DistrictLincolnDistrict1974
Greene, Benjamin F., HouseCentral FallsBuilding1979
Greystone Historic DistrictNorth ProvidenceDistrict2008
Greystone Mill Historic DistrictNorth ProvidenceBuilding2004
Grove Street Elementary SchoolWoonsocketBuilding1982
Haile, Joseph, HouseProvidenceBuilding1972
Hanora MillsWoonsocketBuilding1982
Harmony Chapel and CemeteryHarmonyBuilding1980
Harris WarehouseWoonsocketBuilding1976
Harrisville Historic DistrictBurrillvilleDistrict1984
Hay and Owen BuildingsProvidenceBuilding1982
HearthsideLincolnBuilding1973
Heaton and Cowing MillProvidenceBuilding2012
Holy Trinity Church ComplexCentral FallsBuilding1978
Honan's Block and 112-114 Main StreetWoonsocketBuilding1989
Hope Block and CheapsideProvidenceBuilding1975
Hope Street SchoolWoonsocketBuilding2000
Hope Webbing Company MillPawtucketBuilding2006
Hope-Power-Cooke Streets Historic DistrictProvidenceDistrict1973
Hopkins Mill Historic DistrictFosterDistrict1984
Hopkins, Esek, HouseProvidenceBuilding1973
Hopkins, Gov. Stephen, House NHLProvidenceBuilding1970
Hoppin, Thomas F., HouseProvidenceBuilding1973
Hughes, Thomas H., HouseJohnstonBuilding1979
Island Place Historic DistrictWoonsocketDistrict1990
Ives, Thomas P., House NHLProvidenceBuilding1970
Jenckes HouseLincolnBuilding1984
Jenckes HouseLincolnBuilding1984
Jenckes MansionWoonsocketBuilding1982
Jenckes Spinning CompanyPawtucketDistrict2018
Jenks Park & Cogswell TowerCentral FallsDistrict1979
Jillson, Luke, HouseCumberlandBuilding1982
Jones WarehousesProvidenceBuilding1980
Joy HomesteadCranstonBuilding1971
Jules Desurmont Worsted Company MillWoonsocketBuilding2007
Knightsville MeetinghouseCranstonBuilding1978
Kotzow, Louis, HousePawtucketBuilding1983
L'Eglise du Precieux SangWoonsocketBuilding1982
L'Union Saint Jean-Baptist d' AmeriqueWoonsocketBuilding2018
Ladd ObservatoryProvidenceBuilding2000
Lafayette Worsted Company Administrative Headquarters Historic DistrictWoonsocketDistrict2017
Leroy TheatrePawtucketBuilding1983
Liberty Arming the PatriotPawtucketObject2001
Lime KilnsLincolnStructure1984
Limerock Village Historic DistrictLincolnDistrict1974
Linton BlockWoonsocketBuilding1982
Lippitt Hill Historic DistrictCranstonDistrict1989
Lippitt, Gov. Henry, House NHLProvidenceBuilding1972
Little Neck CemeteryEast ProvidenceSite1980
Loew's State TheatreProvidenceBuilding1977
Logee HouseWoonsocketBuilding1982
Lonsdale Historic DistrictLonsdaleDistrict1984
Louttit LaundryProvidenceBuilding2004
Lymansville Company MillNorth ProvidenceBuilding2012
Lynch, Matthew, HouseProvidenceBuilding1978
Main Street BridgePawtucketStructure1983
Main Street Historic DistrictWoonsocketDistrict1991
Manton-Hunt-Farnum FarmGlocesterBuilding1985
Manville Company Worker Housing Historic DistrictLincolnDistrict2009
Market HouseProvidenceBuilding1972
Mason, Israel B., HouseProvidenceBuilding1977
Mathewson FarmJohnstonBuilding2001
McGonagle Site, RI-1227ScituateSite1985
Mechanical Fabric CompanyProvidenceBuilding2014
Merchants Bank BuildingProvidenceBuilding1977
Metcalf-Franklin FarmCumberlandBuilding2007
Millrace Site, RI-1039ScituateSite1985
Minkins, John Carter, HousePawtucketBuilding2025
Mitchell-Arnold HousePawtucketBuilding1983
Modern DinerPawtucketBuilding1978
Montgomery, Nathaniel, HousePawtucketBuilding1984
Moore Fabric Company PlantPawtucketBuilding2019
Moosup Valley Historic DistrictFosterDistrict1988
Moshassuck SquareProvidenceDistrict1970
Moswansicut Pond Site, RI-960ScituateSite1985
Mount Vernon TavernFosterBuilding1974
Mowry, Tyler, HouseNorth SmithfieldBuilding1996
Mowry, William, HouseNorth SmithfieldBuilding1983
Mt. HygeiaFosterBuilding1977
National and Providence Worsted MillsProvidenceBuilding2003
Naushon Company PlantCumberlandBuilding2016
Neutaconkanut Hill Park Historic DistrictProvidenceDistrict2026
New England Butt CompanyProvidenceBuilding1980
Newman CemeteryEast ProvidenceSite1980
Newman Congregational ChurchEast ProvidenceBuilding1980
Nicholson File Company Mill ComplexProvidenceBuilding2005
Nightingale-Brown House NHLProvidenceBuilding1989
North Burial GroundProvidenceSite1977
North End Historic DistrictWoonsocketDistrict1982
Norwood Avenue Historic DistrictCranstonDistrict2002
Oak Lawn Village Historic DistrictCranstonDistrict1977
Oakland Avenue Historic DistrictProvidenceDistrict1984
Oakland Historic DistrictBurrillvilleDistrict1987
Ochee Spring QuarryJohnstonSite1978
Oddfellow's HallEast ProvidenceBuilding1980
Old Ashton Historic DistrictLincolnDistrict1984
Old Congregational ChurchNorth ScituateBuilding1974
Old Slater Mill NHLPawtucketDistrict1966
Olney Street-Alumni Avenue Historic DistrictProvidenceDistrict1989
Olney, Capt. Stephen, HouseNorth ProvidenceBuilding1974
Ontario ApartmentsProvidenceBuilding1998
Oriental MillsProvidenceBuilding2005
Our Lady of Lourdes Church ComplexProvidenceBuilding1990
Parkis-Comstock Historic DistrictProvidenceDistrict1980
Parkis-Comstock Historic District (Boundary Increase)ProvidenceDistrict1988
Pascoag Grammar SchoolBurrillvilleBuilding2006
Patterson Brothers Commercial Building and HouseValley FallsBuilding1993
Pawtucket ArmoryPawtucketBuilding1983
Pawtucket City HallPawtucketBuilding1983
Pawtucket Congregational ChurchPawtucketBuilding1978
Pawtucket Elks Lodge BuildingPawtucketBuilding1983
Pawtucket Post OfficePawtucketBuilding1976
Pawtucket Times BuildingPawtucketBuilding1983
Pawtucket West High SchoolPawtucketBuilding1983
Payne, Charles, HousePawtucketBuilding1983
Pearce, Nathaniel, HouseProvidenceBuilding1972
Pekin Street Historic DistrictProvidenceDistrict1984
Perkins BuildingsProvidenceBuilding2004
Phillips Insulated Wire Company ComplexPawtucketBuilding2004
Phillipsdale Historic DistrictEast ProvidenceDistrict2011
Philmont Worsted Company MillWoonsocketBuilding2006
Pine Street Historic DistrictProvidenceDistrict1978
Pitcher-Goff HousePawtucketBuilding1976
Plain Farm HouseProvidenceBuilding1980
Plymouth Congregational ChurchProvidenceBuilding2021
Pocasset Worsted Company MillJohnstonBuilding2010
Poirier's DinerProvidenceBuilding2003
Pomham Rocks Light StationEast ProvidenceBuilding1979
Pothier HouseWoonsocketBuilding1982
Potter-Collyer HousePawtucketBuilding1983
Potter-Remington HouseCranstonBuilding1978
Power Street-Cooke Street Historic DistrictProvidenceDistrict1974
Prospect Heights Housing ProjectPawtucketDistrict2015
Providence City HallProvidenceBuilding1975
Providence Dyeing, Bleaching, Calendring CompanyProvidenceBuilding2004
Providence Fruit and Produce Warehouse Company BuildingProvidenceBuilding2005
Providence Gas Company Purifier HouseProvidenceBuilding2007
Providence Jewelry Manufacturing District (Boundary Increase)ProvidenceDistrict2012
Providence Jewelry Manufacturing Historic DistrictProvidenceDistrict1985
Providence Lying-In HospitalProvidenceBuilding1986
Providence Steel and Iron Company ComplexProvidenceBuilding2005
Providence Telephone CompanyProvidenceBuilding1983
Providence-Biltmore HotelProvidenceBuilding1977
Pullen Corner SchoolLincolnBuilding1984
Quality Hill Historic DistrictPawtucketDistrict1984
Reservoir Avenue Sewage Pumping StationProvidenceBuilding1989
Return Sludge Pumping Station, Fields Point Sewage Treatment PlantProvidenceBuilding1989
Rhode Island Hospital Trust BuildingProvidenceBuilding1976
Rhode Island Medical Society BuildingProvidenceBuilding1984
Rhode Island StatehouseProvidenceBuilding1970
Rhode Island Tool CompanyProvidenceBuilding2004
Rhodes Street Historic DistrictProvidenceDistrict1982
Rhodes-on-the Pawtuxet Ballroom and GazeboCranstonBuilding1978
Richmond Paper Company Mill ComplexEast ProvidenceBuilding2006
Riverside CemeteryPawtucketSite1983
Rochambeau Branch-Providence Public LibraryProvidenceBuilding1998
Rochambeau Worsted Company MillProvidenceBuilding2017
Roger Williams National MemorialProvidenceSite1966
Roger Williams Park Historic DistrictProvidenceDistrict1966
Rose Land Park Plat Historic DistrictEast ProvidenceDistrict2015
Rosedale ApartmentsCranstonBuilding2007
Rumford Chemical Works and Mill House Historic DistrictEast ProvidenceDistrict1980
Rumford Historic DistrictEast ProvidenceDistrict1980
Rumford Historic District (Boundary Decrease)East ProvidenceDistrict2018
Rumford Historic District (Boundary Increase)East ProvidenceDistrict2018
Russell, Joseph and William, HouseProvidenceBuilding1971
Saint Martin's ChurchProvidenceBuilding1996
Saint Thomas Episcopal Church and RectorySmithfieldBuilding1987
Sassafras Site, RI-55AlbionSite1984
Sayles, Deborah Cook, Public LibraryPawtucketBuilding1975
Saylesville Historic DistrictLincolnDistrict1984
Saylesville MeetinghouseLincolnBuilding1978
Scholze-Sayles HousePawtucketBuilding1983
Second Battle of Nipsachuck BattlefieldNorth SmithfieldSite2016
Shakespeare HallProvidenceBuilding1979
Sheldon HouseCranstonBuilding1989
Shepard Company BuildingProvidenceBuilding1976
Sixth District CourthouseProvidenceBuilding1970
Slater ParkPawtucketDistrict1976
Slatersville Historic DistrictSlatersvilleDistrict1973
Sludge Press House, Fields Point Sewage Treatment PlantProvidenceBuilding1989
Smith Hill Branch-Providence Public LibraryProvidenceBuilding1998
Smith Hill Historic DistrictProvidenceDistrict1993
Smith Street Primary SchoolProvidenceBuilding1984
Smith, Joseph, HouseNorth ProvidenceBuilding1978
Smith-Appleby HouseSmithfieldBuilding1974
Smith-Ballou HouseWoonsocketBuilding2003
Smithfield Exchange BankSmithfieldBuilding2006
Smithfield Friends Meeting House, Parsonage & CemeteryWoonsocketBuilding1982
Smithfield Road Historic DistrictNorth SmithfieldDistrict1987
Smithville SeminaryScituateBuilding1978
Smithville-North ScituateScituateDistrict1979
Sons of Jacob SynagogueProvidenceBuilding1989
South Central Falls Historic DistrictCentral FallsDistrict1991
South Main Street Historic DistrictWoonsocketDistrict1982
South Providence Branch-Providence Public LibraryProvidenceBuilding1998
South Street Historic DistrictPawtucketDistrict1983
South Street StationProvidenceBuilding2006
Spaulding, Joseph, HousePawtucketBuilding1976
Sprague, David, HouseProvidenceBuilding1978
Sprague, Gov. William, MansionCranstonBuilding1971
Squantum AssociationEast ProvidenceBuilding1980
St. Andrews Episcopal ChapelWoonsocketBuilding1982
St. Ann's Church ComplexWoonsocketBuilding1982
St. Charles Borromeo Church ComplexWoonsocketBuilding1983
St. John the Baptist ChurchPawtucketBuilding1983
St. Joseph's Church ComplexCumberlandBuilding1982
St. Joseph's Roman Catholic ChurchProvidenceBuilding1974
St. Mary's Church of the Immaculate Conception ComplexPawtucketBuilding1983
St. Mary's Episcopal ChurchEast ProvidenceBuilding1980
St. Matthew's ChurchCentral FallsBuilding1979
St. Michael's Roman Catholic Church, Convent, Rectory, and SchoolProvidenceBuilding1977
St. Paul's ChurchPawtucketBuilding1983
St. Stephen's ChurchProvidenceBuilding1973
Stadium BuildingWoonsocketBuilding1976
Standard Paper Box CorporationPawtucketBuilding2015
State ArsenalProvidenceBuilding1970
State Home and School for Dependent and Neglected Children Historic DistrictProvidenceDistrict2019
Stedman & Fuller Manufacturing Company ComplexProvidenceBuilding2021
Stimson Avenue Historic DistrictProvidenceDistrict1973
Summit Historic DistrictProvidenceDistrict2003
Swan Point CemeteryProvidenceSite1977
Swan Point Cemetery and Trolley Shelter (Boundary Increase)ProvidenceStructure1978
Sweet, Ira B., HouseSmithfieldBuilding2010
Taft, Moses, HouseBurrillvilleBuilding2009
Temple Beth-ElProvidenceBuilding1988
Three Dog Site, RI-151North SmithfieldSite1984
Todd FarmNorth SmithfieldBuilding1983
Tower, Lewis, HouseCumberlandBuilding1982
Tower-Flagg Barn ComplexCumberlandBuilding1998
Trinity ChurchPawtucketBuilding1972
Trinity Square Historic DistrictProvidenceDistrict1980
Trinity Square Repertory TheatreProvidenceBuilding1972
U.S. CustomshouseProvidenceBuilding1972
U.S. Post OfficeWoonsocketBuilding1979
Union StationProvidenceBuilding1975
Union Trust Company BuildingProvidenceBuilding1973
Union Village Historic DistrictWoonsocketDistrict1978
United States Post Office AnnexProvidenceBuilding2017
United States Rubber Company Mill ComplexProvidenceBuilding2005
University Hall, Brown University NHLProvidenceBuilding1966
Valley Falls MillCentral FallsBuilding1978
Valley Falls Mill, Office and Bath HouseCentral FallsBuilding1978
Veterans Memorial Auditorium-Masonic TempleProvidenceBuilding1993
Walker, Phillip, HouseEast ProvidenceBuilding1972
Wanskuck Branch-Providence Public LibraryProvidenceBuilding1998
Wanskuck Historic DistrictProvidenceDistrict1983
Washington Park Sewage Pumping StationProvidenceBuilding1989
Waterman-Winsor FarmSmithfieldBuilding1980
Wayland Historic DistrictProvidenceDistrict2005
Wesleyan Avenue Historic DistrictProvidenceDistrict1982
WestcoteCranstonBuilding1988
Westcott, Nathan, HouseCranstonBuilding1989
Westminster Street Historic DistrictProvidenceDistrict2003
Weybosset Mills ComplexProvidenceDistrict2008
Whipple-Angell-Bennett HouseNorth ProvidenceBuilding1995
Whipple-Cullen House and BarnLincolnBuilding1991
Whipple-Jenckes HouseCumberlandBuilding1992
Whitcomb FarmEast ProvidenceBuilding1980
White, Josephine, BlockProvidenceBuilding1980
Wilbur, Frank, HouseWoonsocketBuilding1982
Winsor, Stephen, HouseSmithfieldBuilding1975
Winsor-Swan-Whitman FarmProvidenceBuilding1974
Witherby, Constance, ParkProvidenceStructure1975
Wood, Arad, HouseCranstonBuilding1988
Woods-Gerry HouseProvidenceBuilding1971
Woonasquatucket River Site (RI-163)SmithvilleSite1984
Woonsocket City HallWoonsocketBuilding1974
Woonsocket Civil War MonumentWoonsocketStructure1982
Woonsocket Company Mill Complex (Additional Documentation)WoonsocketDistrict1973
Woonsocket District CourthouseWoonsocketBuilding1982
Woonsocket Rubber Company MillWoonsocketBuilding1989
Woonsocket Senior High and Junior High SchoolsWoonsocketBuilding2017
World War I MemorialEast ProvidenceObject2001

Source: National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Property links open NRHP nomination files at the National Archives.

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Providence was formed in 1703 (1703-06-22) from unknown / original county.

PROVIDENCE PLANTATIONS (now PROVIDENCE) created as one of two original counties, consisting of the mainland part of Rhode Island.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Providence County population from 1790 to 2020 (Census historical series).

661k343k24k179018001840188019101920196020002020
17901800182018401860188019001920194019501960198020002020
24,39125,85435,73658,073107,799197,874328,683475,190550,298574,973568,778571,349621,602660,741

Sources: U.S. Census Bureau historical county population (Forstall 1790–1990) and public-domain / CC0 county population series through 2020.

National Park Service sites nearby

NPS

Park units within about 40 km of the county centroid (from NPS Public POIs; no API key).

SiteTypeDist.
Roger Williams National MemorialNational Memorial14.5 km

Source: NPS National Datasets / Public POIs. The NPS Developer API requires a free key and was not used.

Cemeteries & historical places

USGS GNIS

535 cemeteries and 14 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.

Cemeteries — 80 of 535 listed
NameLatLon
Aaron Mowry Lot Cemetery41.87951-71.56127
Abel Mowry Lot41.84482-71.59959
Abel Tanner Lot41.82711-71.62348
Abial Mowry Lot41.87242-71.50038
Abner Harris Lot Cemetery41.91157-71.50044
Abraham Corp Lot Cemetery41.77922-71.64755
Adden Shippee Lot41.89495-71.78323
Albee - Paine Lot41.98541-71.70734
Albert Randall Cemetery41.86256-71.60454
Albert Windsor Lot41.88255-71.57927
Aldrich - Thayer Lot Cemetery42.00644-71.66971
Aldrich Wilmarth Lot41.85318-71.68059
Alfred Smith Lot Cemetery41.91226-71.52581
Alonzo Shippee Lot41.8554-71.75563
Alonzo Thurbur Lot41.91438-71.50021
Alverson Lot41.8084-71.48186
Amasa Esten Lot42.00621-71.63983
Ambrose Eddy Lot41.87147-71.49535
Amos Whitaker Lot41.78308-71.51676
Ananias Mowry Lot41.96485-71.53703
Ancient Little Neck Burial Ground41.76754-71.35413
Andrew Harris Lot41.96598-71.67979
Angell - Cornell Lot41.85112-71.6475
Angell - Eddy Lot41.79828-71.68161
Anthony Clemmons Lot41.86027-71.76105
Arnold - Vose Cemetery41.99514-71.51999
Arnold Brown Lot41.87667-71.54531
Arnold Mills Cemetery41.98109-71.39828
Arnold and Polk Lot41.8686-71.55177
Asa Tourtellot Lot41.82089-71.48745
Asahel Harris Lot41.83727-71.60976
Asahel Paine Plot41.85943-71.52727
Asaph Wilder Burial Ground41.86661-71.73194
Asel Phetteplace Lot Cemetery41.88956-71.54351
Aseph Saunders Lot41.83222-71.71829
Atwill Sayles Lot41.89437-71.49924
Atwood - Salisbury Lot41.79972-71.61796
Austin Thayer Gorton Lot41.90938-71.4146
B'Nai Israel Cemetery41.99362-71.48422
Ballou - Buffum Lot41.99014-71.60744
Ballou Cemetery41.93891-71.43046
Barden Cemetery41.79513-71.67675
Barnes - Potter Lot41.78687-71.57848
Barnes - Smith Lot Cemetery41.87671-71.52011
Barnes - Staples Lot41.86576-71.49556
Benedict Whipple Lot41.7598-71.64218
Benjamin - Bennett Lot41.788-71.73816
Benjamin Angell Lot Cemetery41.83585-71.63822
Benjamin D M Slack Lot Cemetery41.85248-71.59982
Benjamin Kimball Lot Cemetery41.84021-71.53111
Benjamin Luther Lot41.85639-71.49839
Benjamin Medbery Lot41.88217-71.58388
Benjamin Sayles Lot41.93084-71.49853
Benoni Mathewson Lot Cemetery41.80901-71.49099
Bethany Lutheran Swedish Cemetery41.76112-71.43973
Brown - Evens Lot Cemetery41.92114-71.56471
Brown - Millard Lot41.97829-71.73653
Brownell Lot41.85013-71.61981
Burgess - Round Lot41.7965-71.79212
Burton Potter Lot41.77076-71.65094
Buxton Cemetery42.00837-71.60411
Caleb Burlingame Lot41.75276-71.50754
Caleb Newell Lot Cemetery41.86474-71.53156
Caleb Remington Lot41.8055-71.50663
Captain Benjamin Hawkins Lot Cemetery41.87813-71.65021
Captain Dean Kimball Lot41.83901-71.64374
Captain Elijah Day Lot41.86577-71.54394
Captain Isaac Hopkins Lot41.79928-71.68555
Captain Isaac Paine Lot41.81949-71.75261
Captain James Buxton Cemetery42.01132-71.59101
Captain James Randall Lot41.79522-71.51037
Captain James Randall Lot41.79484-71.52252
Captain James Reynolds Lot41.91211-71.76939
Captain John Smith Lot41.94655-71.62436
Captain Jonathan Knight Lot41.75277-71.61262
Captain Nathaniel Harrington Lot41.75339-71.75461
Captain Phillip Sheldon Lot41.77211-71.40885
Captain Reuben Mathewson Plot41.80275-71.49626
Captain Ruben Lyons Lot Cemetery41.73731-71.73717
Captain Solomon Taylor Lot41.73743-71.6006
Historical populated places — 14 of 14
NameLatLon
Ashland41.7876-71.60062
Bellefonte41.76871-71.4095
Cork Hill41.81927-71.40089
Elmdale41.83954-71.60923
Field Station41.95593-71.58367
Fort Hill41.81288-71.3845
Kent41.75621-71.58284
Omega41.8351-71.36089
Ponaganset41.79315-71.67312
Richmond41.7701-71.62256
Rockland41.78704-71.66673
South Scituate41.77899-71.60645
Wallum Lake41.99926-71.76063
Wayland41.77816-71.46811

Source: USGS Geographic Names Information System (public domain). Cemeteries from the 2021 NationalFile archive; historical places from GNIS HistoricalFeatures topical extract.

Historical markers

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