Cat Swamp was an area of
Providence, Rhode Island
Providence is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Rhode Island. One of the oldest cities in New England, it was founded in 1636 by Roger Williams, a Reformed Baptist theologian and religious exile from the Massachusetts Bay ...
that remained undeveloped until the early 20th century.
It was filled in and built on by civil engineer, John Freeman in 1915.
References
Geography of Providence, Rhode Island
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