Rhode Island
Researchers hunt for clues about Snowtown, a vibrant, mixed-race neighborhood wiped out in Providence
On the Rhode Island Report podcast, two Snowtown Project team researchers tell the Globe they aim to put the people of Snowtown “back into the imagination, as real as people who matter, as someone that we, you know, we came from.”
The working-class neighborhood of Snowtown thrived at the turn of the 19th century, when several small rental homes were built in the area around Smith Street, according to Heather Olson, a manager at the Public Archaeology Laboratory Inc. in Pawtuck... [3554 chars]