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/ref> Some of the houses on the Street are still painted in pastel colors in the Portuguese style. Today, Wickenden Street has numerous independent shops, art galleries, a farmer's market, and restaurants that are popular among local artists, professors and students.
Image:Wickenden Street Providence RI 1.jpg, Wickenden Street in 2008
Image:Wickenden Street Providence RI 3.jpg, Wickenden Street in 2008
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Wickenden Street in Fox Point, Providence, Rhode Island
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is a popular destination for students of the area's colleges and schools. The street is surrounded by schools and universities on the East Side of Providence's College Hill, including Brown University, RISD, Moses Brown School
Moses Brown School is an independent Quaker school located in Providence, Rhode Island, offering pre-kindergarten through secondary school classes. It was founded in 1784 by Moses Brown, a Quaker abolitionist, and is one of the oldest prepara ...
, & The Wheeler School
Wheeler School is a private school located on the East Side of Providence, Rhode Island, United States. The school serves students from the preschool level through twelfth-grade.
History Early history
In 1889, an art school for girls was establ ...
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History
The street is named after a rebelliousBritish
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minister, William Wickenden
William Wickenden (c. 1614–1671) was an early Anglo-American Baptist minister, co-founder of Providence Plantations, and signer of the Providence Compact. Wickenden Street in Providence marks where he originally settled in the seventeenth c ...
, who had a farm on the original strip of land comprising modern day Wickenden Street. Wickenden was one of the first settlers in Providence in the 17th century. The area was home to a large Portuguese-American
Portuguese Americans ( pt, português-americanos), also known as Luso-Americans (''luso-americanos''), are citizens and residents of the United States who are connected to the country of Portugal by birth, ancestry, or citizenship.
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community starting in the 19th century. In 1885 Bishop Hendricken organized one of the first Portuguese-American churches in the area on the site of a former Wickenden Street skating rink./ref> Some of the houses on the Street are still painted in pastel colors in the Portuguese style. Today, Wickenden Street has numerous independent shops, art galleries, a farmer's market, and restaurants that are popular among local artists, professors and students.
See also
* College Hill, Providence, Rhode Island * Thayer StreetExternal links
Wickenden Area Merchants Association
References
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