Hard Scrabble and Snow Town
Former neighborhood in Providence, Rhode Island, United States / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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"Snow Town" redirects here. For the town in Australia, see Snowtown, South Australia.
This article is about the town in Rhode Island, USA. For other uses, see Hardscrabble (disambiguation).
Hard Scrabble (Addison Hollow) and Snow Town were two African American neighborhoods located in Providence, Rhode Island in the nineteenth century. They were also the sites of race riots in which working-class Irish-Americans[1] destroyed multiple black homes in 1824 and 1831, respectively.[2][3]
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Coordinates: 41.8325°N 71.4111°W / 41.8325; -71.4111 | |
Country | United States |
State | Rhode Island |
City | Providence |
Established | circa 1800 |
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