Welcome to Snowtown: Exploring a Lost Neighborhood

Welcome to Snowtown: Exploring a Lost Neighborhood
Thursday, March 11, 4:30 – 6pm on Zoom

Snowtown was a small, mixed-race neighborhood in mid-1800s Providence.  It was the site of a racially motivated mob attack in the fall of 1831, but it was also home; first to poor Black and white laborers and later to waves of migrants, sailors, extra-legal entrepreneurs, and widowed mothers.  By the end of the 19th century, the Snowtown community had been displaced by railroad construction and urban development, including construction of the RI State House.

The Snowtown Project Research Team is working to recover the history of this diverse community.  Please join us to hear a brief introduction to the team’s progress so far.  We will discuss people, places and memory as well as the artifacts excavated at the Snowtown site, with time for audience questions.

Speakers include Ted Coleman, Nkem Ike, Marco McWilliams, Joanne Pope Melish, Heather Olson, Traci Picard, Andrew Polta, and Sylvia Ann Soares.

Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/welcome-to-snowtown-exploring-a-lost-neighborhood-tickets-137605205875.