Italian, Franco-American, and Irish heritage in Rhode Island's capital city — the mill workers, the immigrants, and the communities that built New England.
The most Italian neighbourhood in New England — Atwells Avenue, the pine cone arch, Angelo's Civita Farnese, and the Sicilian communities who made Providence their home since the 1880s.
Irish HeritageWhere Providence's Famine Irish built their first parish and their political machine — the neighbourhood that made Rhode Island one of the most Irish states in America, adjacent to the Rhode Island State House whose marble dome rises above the hill they settled.
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