After being developed as farmland in the late 18th Century, this neighborhood between the eastern ridge of the Moshassuck River Valley and the western bank of the Seekonk River was mostly developed in the late 19th and early 20th Century. It consists mainly of medium to large size single family dwelling. The neighborhood's most conspicuous elements are the Butler Hospital, the Swan Point Cemetery (both 1847) and the 2.48 miles long and 200 feet wide, landscaped Blackstone Boulevard (1894, landscape architect Horace W. S. Cleveland). It had been commissions by the proprietors of Swan Point Cemetery and connects the Waterman and Angell Street corridor on the south with Hope Street on the north at the Pawtucket city line.

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For further information on Blackstone, consult the Providence Plan website.