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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 ...

has 25 official neighborhoods. * Blackstone * Charles * College Hill * Downtown * Elmhurst * Elmwood * Federal Hill * Fox Point *

Hartford Hartford is the capital city of the U.S. state of Connecticut. It was the seat of Hartford County until Connecticut disbanded county government in 1960. It is the core city in the Greater Hartford metropolitan area. Census estimates since t ...

* Hope (Summit) * Lower South Providence * Manton * Mount Hope * Mount Pleasant *

Olneyville Olneyville is a neighborhood in Providence, Rhode Island bordered by Atwells Avenue to the north, U.S. Route 6 to the south and Rhode Island Route 10 to the east. The Woonasquatucket River runs through the southern portion of the neighborhood. ...

Reservoir A reservoir (; from French ''réservoir'' ) is an enlarged lake behind a dam. Such a dam may be either artificial, built to store fresh water or it may be a natural formation. Reservoirs can be created in a number of ways, including contro ...

Silver Lake Silver is a chemical element with the Symbol (chemistry), symbol Ag (from the Latin ', derived from the Proto-Indo-European wikt:Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/h₂erǵ-, ''h₂erǵ'': "shiny" or "white") and atomic number 47. A soft, whi ...

* Smith Hill * South Elmwood * Upper South Providence *

Valley A valley is an elongated low area often running between hills or mountains, which will typically contain a river or stream running from one end to the other. Most valleys are formed by erosion of the land surface by rivers or streams ove ...

* Wanskuck * Washington Park * Wayland * West End

Regions

Many of these neighborhoods are often grouped together referred to collectively: * East Side – Blackstone, Hope, Mount Hope, College Hill, Wayland, and Fox Point. * North End – Charles, Wanskuck, Smith Hill, Elmhurst, and Mount Pleasant.Providence Neighborhood Profiles
* South Side or South Providence – Elmwood, Lower South Providence, Upper South Providence, West End, and Washington Park. Alpert Medical School, Providence, Rhode Island

Alpert Medical School, Providence, Rhode Island

The Jewelry District occupies the southern portion of Downtown Providence. Since the area was re-united with Downtown following the relocation of Interstate 195, the city has been working to attract high-tech and research companies to this area under the rebranded name of "Knowledge District." This area is not recognized as one of Providence's 25 official neighborhoods.The Jewelry District
/ref> The Hospital District, a non-residential area within Upper South Providence is similarly unrecognized. The oldest, highest density neighborhoods are either those close to Downtown or proximate to the

Woonasquatucket River The Woonasquatucket River (pronounced , Algonquian for "where the salt water ends") is a river in the U.S. state of Rhode Island. It flows approximately U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe N ...

, which provided a power source for early industrialization in Manton, Hartford, and Olneyville. More distant neighborhoods developed later, mostly as transportation as public horse car and streetcar lines were added. File:George Street, on the East Side of Providence RI.jpg, College Hill, on Providence's East Side overlooks Downtown File:Holden Street Providence.jpg, Smith Hill forms one of the neighborhoods on Providence's North End File:Providence street art Elmwood Avenue.jpg, Elmwood is part of Providence's South Side

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Neighborhoods A neighbourhood (British English, Irish English, Australian English and Canadian English) or neighborhood (American English; see spelling differences) is a geographically localised community within a larger city, town, suburb or rural area, ...

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