Exploring the Blackstone River Valley
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Central Falls
Rhode Island
Chocolateville Landing
Cogswell Tower at Jenks Park
Paddling on the Blackstone River
Incorporated as a town in 1730 and as a city in 1895
- Although Central Falls is the smallest city in Rhode Island, just one square mile, it is the most densely populated
- Was originally home to the Nipmuc, Wampanoag, and Narraganset Native Tribes
- In 1676, during King Phillip’s War, the Narragansett warriors ambushed Colonial troops in the area of Central Falls and killed them.
- For a time, Central Falls was knows as Chocolateville
- Quakers made up the majority of the first European settlers, later immigrants from Ireland, Scotland and Canada started to arrive.
- The Oscar-winning actress Viola Davis was raised in Central Falls.
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