Johnston: Western Suburb of Providence
Johnston sits immediately west of Providence and covers about 24 square miles. The town was set off from Providence in 1759 and named for Augustus Johnston, a colonial attorney general of Rhode Island. Population is near 29,000. The Simmonsville, Thornton, and Graniteville sections served as industrial villages along the Pocasset and Woonasquatucket rivers through the nineteenth century.
The Clemence-Irons House on George Waterman Road is a stone-ender built around 1691, one of the oldest surviving buildings in Rhode Island. Its massive stone chimney forms the entire end wall, a construction style brought from western England and used in the earliest Rhode Island farmhouses. The Snake Den State Park in the northern part of town preserves forested uplands and wetlands as one of the few remaining undeveloped tracts in the Providence metropolitan area.
Johnston operates the Central Landfill, the state's primary solid waste disposal facility, operated by the Rhode Island Resource Recovery Corporation. The site occupies hundreds of acres and processes waste from communities across the state.
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Johnston sits immediately west of Providence and covers about 24 square miles. The town was set off from Providence in 1759 and named for Augustus Johnston, a colonial attorney general of Rhode Island. Population is near 29,000. The Simmonsville, Thornton, and Graniteville sections served as industrial villages along the Pocasset and Woonasquatucket rivers through the nineteenth century.
The Clemence-Irons House on George Waterman Road is a stone-ender built around 1691, one of the oldest surviving buildings in Rhode Island. Its massive stone chimney forms the entire end wall, a construction style brought from western England and used in the earliest Rhode Island farmhouses. The Snake Den State Park in the northern part of town preserves forested uplands and wetlands as one of the few remaining undeveloped tracts in the Providence metropolitan area.
Johnston operates the Central Landfill, the state's primary solid waste disposal facility, operated by the Rhode Island Resource Recovery Corporation. The site occupies hundreds of acres and processes waste from communities across the state.
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