Scituate, Rhode Island

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Scituate ( Ã, ( listen ) ) is a city in Providence County, Rhode Island, United States. The population is 10,329 at the 2010 census.

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The scituate was first completed in 1710 by immigrants from Scituate, Massachusetts. The original spelling of the city name is "Satuit", a native word of India meaning "cold river" or "cold river." The city was part of Providence until 1731.

The first Scituate town meeting was held at Angell Tavern in South Scituate, with Stephen Hopkins being named first moderator and Joseph Brown as scribe. Stephen Hopkins later became governor of Rhode Island and became a signatory to the Declaration of Independence. His brother, Esek Hopkins, was the Commander of the Continental Navy beginning in 1776. In 1788 Scituate representatives, militia general and Supreme Court Justice William West led an armed anti-federalist gang of peasants to Providence to protest the US Constitution. In 1791, the US Supreme Court ruled on its first case, West v. Barnes , about a farm in Scituate.

The scituate used to consist of many small villages, including North Scituate, Hope, Ashland, Clayville, Elmdale, Fiskeville, Glenn Rock, Harrisdale, Jackson, Kent, Ponaganset, Potterville, Richmond, Rockland, Saundersville, and South Scituate. Foster was founded as a separate city in 1781, taking the western part of Scituate.

In 1915, the General Assembly of Rhode Island chose to take 14,800 hectares (60 km ² ) of land in Scituate (38% of the city) to create a reservoir to supply fresh water to the greater Providence. The project resulted in the condemnation of "1,195 buildings, including 375 houses, seven schools, six churches, six factories, thirty dairy farms, eleven ice houses, post offices, and electric train systems, the Providence and Danielson Railways system". (2) Kent, Richmond, Rockland, South Scituate, Ashland, Saundersville, Ponaganset, and Northern Scituate and Clayville villages disappear forever.

Scituate has played an important role in many US wars. During the Revolutionary War, 76 cannons were forged in Hope Furnace in the village of Hope in southern Scituate. During World War II, the monitoring facilities of the Federal Communications Commission's Intelligence Radio Division at Darby Road near Chopmist Hill ( 41,8198 Â ° N 71,6453 Ã, Â ° W / 41.8198; -71.6453 ) tapped into German HF communications. Therefore, in 1946, the Chopmist Hill area was regarded as a candidate for the location of UN headquarters.

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Geography

According to the US Census Bureau, the city has a total area of ​​54.8 square miles (141.9 km²), where, 48.7 square miles (126.1 km²) is land and 6.1 square miles (15.8 km² ²) of it (11.15%) is water.

Scituate Reservoir

One of the most prominent features in this city is the Scituate Reservoir. Large reservoirs cover most of the Scituate and forever change the face of the city. During the construction of the dam, many villages were flooded along the former Pawtuxet River bank. Some of the foundations of old structures are still visible today during the drought. Reservoir, and most of the surrounding land is owned and maintained by the Board of Water Supply Providers.

The main Scituate Reservoir was formed by the construction of a dam across the Pawtuxet River in the former village of Kent. Dams, especially earth, have a length of about 3,200 feet (980 m) and a height of 100 feet (30 m). Storage of water in the reservoir began on November 10, 1925. The water channel from the reservoir fed a nearby processing plant placed in operation on 30 September 1926.

The Scituate Reservoir is the largest artificial freshwater body in the state of Rhode Island. It has an aggregate capacity of 39 billion billion US gallons (150,000,000 m ³ ) and a 5.3 square mile (13.7 km²) surface area. These and six reservoirs of creeks - which make up the total surface area of ​​7.2 square miles (18.6 km²) - supply drinking water to over 60 percent of the country's population. The surrounding drainage basin that provides water to the reservoir system covers an area of ​​about 94 square miles (243.5 km²), which covers most of the towns of Scituate and parts of Foster, Glocester, Johnston, and Cranston. The Scituate Reservoir is operated by the Board of Water Supply Providers.

The original processing plant is state-of-the-art at the time of its construction. This factory is considered the most advanced in the field of technology, and for years the filtration system is the only type of plant in New England. As demand continued to grow, the maintenance plant underwent a major expansion and renovation in the 1940s and again in the 60s. Currently, the plant has a maximum processing capacity of 144 million US gallons (550,000 m ³ ) of water per day and still remains the largest care facility in New England.

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Politics

In the 2008 US Presidential election, Scituate was the only city in Rhode Island that voted for John McCain, 51% -47% of Barack Obama. It is the only city in Rhode Island to elect the Republic in every presidential election since 2000.

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Demographics

In the 2000 census, there were 10,324 people, 3,780 households, and 2,929 families living in the city. Population density was 212.1 people per square mile (81.9/km ²). There are 3,904 units of homes with an average density of 80.2 per square mile (31.0/km²). City's racial makeup is 98.13% White, 0.29% African American, 0.07% Native American, 0.58% Asian, 0.03% Pacific Island, 0.32% of other races, and 0.58% % of two or more races. Hispanic or Latin of any race is 0.75% of the population.

There are 3,780 households in which 36.2% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 67.3% are married couples living together, 7.5% have non-husbands female households, and 22.5% are not family. 18.5% of all households were made up of individuals and 7.7% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.72 and the average family size was 3.12.

In the city, the population is spread by 25.5% under the age of 18, 5.9% from 18 to 24, 28.8% from 25 to 44, 27.7% from 45 to 64, and 12.0% years or more. The average age is 40 years. For every 100 females, there are 96.3 males. For every 100 women age 18 and over, there are 94.4 men.

The average income for households in the city is $ 60,788, and the average income for families is $ 67,593. Men have an average income of $ 42,392 versus $ 30,703 for women. The per capita income for the city is $ 28,092. About 2.0% of families and 3.9% of the population are below the poverty line, including 4.3% of those under the age of 18 and 5.5% of those aged 65 and older.

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Education

In 1839, Smithville Seminary, a Freewill Baptist institute was established in North Scituate and was inside and outside as an educational institution until it was finally closed in 1876. The Pentecaint Collegiate Institute then moved to an earlier campus from Saratoga Springs, New York in 1902 When PCI became Eastern Nazarene College and left in 1919, William Holland purchased the property and moved the Industrialman School and Camp Guard there in 1923. It was allegedly burned several times by local Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s and 1930s and closed in 1938 Although the summer camp was operating until 1974. The building and campus of the Awakening of Greece is now Scituate Commons, an apartment complex on Institute Lane.

High school students in Scituate go to Scituate High School (Rhode Island).

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Scituate Art Festival

The Scituate Art Festival, held every Columbus Day weekend since 1967, features more than 300 artists and artisans displaying and selling their artwork in the picturesque village of New England. The number of visitors in the range of 200,000 to 350,000 per festival. The Old Congregational Church is used for part of the festival.

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National Historic Sites and Important Sites in Scituate

• Andrews-Luther Farm (1768)
• Dexter Arnold Farmstead (1813)
• The Battey-Barden House
• Clayville Historic District
• Amos Cooke House (1812)

• Double Site L, RI-958
• Historical Hope Village District
• McGonagle's Site, RI-1227
• Millrace Site, RI-1039
• Moswansicut Pond Site, RI-960
• The Church of the Old Congregation (North Scituate, Rhode Island) (1834)
• Rhode Island State Police Station
• Smithville Seminary (1839)
• Smithville-North Scituate
• Woonasquatucket River Site (RI-163)

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Famous people

• James Burrill Angell, president of the University of Michigan and University of Vermont
• Emerson C. Angell, American dentist
• Robert Capron, Rowley Jefferson in the Diary of Wimpy Kid series
• Yehezkiel Cornell, delegate to the Continental Congress
• Esek Hopkins, sailor of the Revolutionary War
• Stephen Hopkins, colonial governor of Rhode Island; signatories to the Declaration of Independence
• Fenner Kimball, Wisconsin State lawmaker
• Armand LaMontagne, wood sculptor
• Archibald Molbone, Medal of Honor recipient
• Arthur Steere, entrepreneur and politician
• William West, Revolutionary War Generals, Rhode Island Lieutenant Governor, Chief Justice of Rhode Island

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References

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