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County Coordinator - Susan Nahas |
 Providence
County was constituted on June 22, 1703, as the County of Providence
Plantations. It consisted of five towns, namely Providence, Warwick,
Westerly, Kingstown, and Greenwich and encompassed territory in
present-day
Kent and
Washington counties. Washington County
was split off as King's County in 1729, while Kent County was split off
in 1750. The town of Cumberland was acquired from Massachusetts and
added to Providence County in 1746-47, and the towns of East Providence
and Pawtucket were made part of Providence County when the final border
with Massachusetts was settled in 1862. County government in Rhode
Island was abolished in 1842. Providence County, like other counties in
Rhode Island, has no governmental functions (other than as court
administrative and sheriff corrections boundaries which are part of
state government). --- Wikipedia.
MANY THANKS TO BRENDA BOVA, PRIOR VOLUNTEER FOR THIS COUNTY! AT THE
PRESENT TIME MOST OF THE MATERIALS HERE WERE PLACED ON THE SITE BY
BRENDA AND/OR HER DONORS OF THAT MATERIAL.
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