Know Our Neighborhood History

The WBNA recently installed four historic marker panels with information on the rich and complex history of our neighborhood. Two can be found in Dexter Training Ground, and two more in Luongo Square.

Start Date: 2017 / Installed: 2021

Goals

  • Educate, inform and include the public about the history of the neighborhood’s social and built history

  • Enrich our public spaces with informative signage and instill a Pride of Place

  • Provide context and connection to past, present and future of the neighborhood

  • Show the power of civic engagement

  • Share stories of history and people from multiple perspectives especially “lost” or previously “untold” stories

  • Create a replicable marker template so more stories can be told and more markers installed

RESEARCH & TEXT

Clark Schoettle for the Freestanding Marker in LMS; Taylor Polites for the Utility Box in LMS and the Cranston Street Armory panel at DTG; Robert Grandchamp for the Military History Marker at DTG.

Funders

Made possible through funding support from The Champlin Foundation and Rhode Island Council for the Humanities, an independent state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities. The Council seeds, supports, and strengthens public history, cultural heritage, civic education, and community engagement by and for all Rhode Islanders.

Design

A Ton Design

Fabrication

Praxis

Installation

Providence Parks Department

$ To Our Neighborhood

$16,000

what you can do

Stop by Dexter Park or Luongo Square and read up on our neighborhood history!