The Moshassuck River

Historical marker location:

Providence, Rhode Island

( Marker is at the intersection of U.S. 44 and Canal Street, on the right when traveling west on U.S. 44.)

Its Industry and settlements as shown on an 1885 map.

Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, is the seventh-oldest college in the United States, founded in 1764 as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.