East Providence, Rhode Island, United States

🇺🇸 East Providence is a city in Providence County, Rhode Island, United States. It is the fifth-largest city in the state.

Geography East Providence is located between the Providence and Seekonk Rivers on the west and the Seekonk area of Massachusetts on the east. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 16.6 square miles (43 km²), of which, 13.4 square miles (35 km²) of it is land and 3.2 square miles (8.3 km²) of it (19.33%) is water.

The following villages are located in East Providence: • East Providence Center • Riverside • Rumford

Governance The city of East Providence is governed by an elected mayor and a five-member city council, with the mayor and counselors elected every four years. City council members are elected one each from four wards and one elected at-large.

Executive branch The mayor is both the ceremonial leader of the city and the chief executive officer. The mayor runs the daily operations of the city, enforces the charter and ordinances of the city and appoints all department heads except the city clerk.

Ancestry The population has large immigrant communities from Portugal, the Azores, Madeira and Cape Verde. Approximately 24% of East Providence residents report Portuguese ancestry, followed by Irish at 18%, and Italian with 11%.

Health and medicine Bradley Hospital, the nation's first psychiatric facility exclusively for children, was founded in 1931. It is a teaching hospital for the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University.

** Historic Places** • Bicknell–Armington Lightning Splitter House • Boston and Providence Railroad Bridge • Bridgham Farm • Carpenter, Lakeside, and Springvale Cemeteries • Crescent Park Looff Carousel, (National Historic Landmark) • Elm Tree Plat Historic District • Nathaniel Daggett House • James Dennis House • District 6 Schoolhouse • Little Neck Cemetery • Newman Cemetery • Newman Congregational Church • Oddfellows' Hall • Pomham Rocks Light • Rose Land Park Plat Historic District • Richmond Paper Company Mill Complex • Rumford Chemical Works and Mill House Historic District • Rumford Historic District • Squantum Association • St. Mary's Episcopal Church • Phillip Walker House • Whitcomb Farm • World War I Memorial.