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Bold Point is now a public park, Bold Point Park, owned by the City of East Providence. It is home to a boat launch and fishing area. In 2017, the City leased the area to
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and RI Waterfront Events to hold concerts there, starting in summer 2017. It is the state's largest outdoor concert venue, with the capacity for about 4,000 attendees.
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Bold Point was home to maritime businesses including Providence Dry Dock and Marine Railway Co., which operated two
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in the early 20th century. Its success was in part due to the large trading businesses of
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between India Point and Watchemoket in 1793, while the latter was still part of
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and his partner, John Francis, who set up in Providence in 1787. Brown built
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Bold Point is located in the Watchemoket area of East Providence. The
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Providence Dry Dock and Marine Company at Bold Point circa 1910
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used the shallow water by Bold Point as a ford across the
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Green Jacket Shoal
East Providence, Rhode Island
Providence River
Wampanoags
Seekonk River
India Point
Providence
Great Depression
John Brown
the first Washington Bridge
Rehoboth, Massachusetts
patent slips
dry dock
Narragansett Bay
The Providence Journal
Green Jacket Shoal
Rhode Island
ship graveyard
Live Nation


"About"
"The Creation of India Point Park"
the original
"Mallows Bay Ship Graveyard a Map for Rhode Island"


"Off the coast of East Providence, an underwater graveyard"

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