Snowtown Discovery Walks

The Snowtown Project Research Team has been delving into archives to help reconstruct a neighborhood on the North Shore of the Providence Cove. Home to a variety of people sometimes unwelcome in the established center of Providence, a diverse group of folks built their homes and businesses here alongside many others just passing through.

This is an important site of Black history, labor history, immigrant history and women’s history as well as redevelopment, racist violence and memory, and our work reflects these many interwoven threads.

We welcome you to walk with us through the area, to look at old maps and new vistas, to remember the history and to think, together, about what it means to us today.

Length is approximate and includes about 1 hour of walking and optional post-walk dialogue. Please be prepared for the weather and the terrain.

Meet on the grounds of the RI State House, at the “Grand Stairway” on Gaspee St, across from the Amtrak Station.