Providence, RI question for Marilyn

Post by **marilyn morning** » Tue Oct 23, 2007 2:06 am

Hi Currie,

I didn't find out about "Google Earth" until after I hooked up with high speed internet, but I don't have any doubt that a download would cause a user problems.

Netzero.com is offering high speed internet for only $6.95 per month for a one year subscription. That's a real bargin for a high speed connect to the www.

I'm not sure if this service is available in Carol's part of the US?

Regards
Marilyn

speleobat2 · Post by **speleobat2** » Tue Oct 23, 2007 2:11 am

We just crossed topic notifications!

The problem is the landlines in this area are out of date. I can get DSL through the local cable company, but their service is awful! I can also get it by satellite, but that's expensive.

Some day, the 21st century with come to my road. Hey, it is a paved road!

Carol

Post by **marilyn morning** » Tue Oct 23, 2007 2:22 am

Oh dial up was such a painful experience.

All of a sudden your telephone stops ringing due to the fact that you're on a dial up service, but Carol I can certainly appreciate your situation, lets tell the truth you live in the country and you're the last to receive the latest services offered by most internet providers.

Regards
Marilyn

Post by **marilyn morning** » Tue Oct 23, 2007 2:36 am

Oh Carol, I forgot to thank you for the congrats on our win last night. It was a good game and we here in New England enjoyed the win and onto the World Series. Better luck to your team next year.....Keep the Faith!

Regards
Marilyn

Post by **SarahND** » Tue Oct 23, 2007 9:56 am

speleobat2 wrote:Some day, the 21st century with come to my road. Hey, it is a paved road!

Hi Carol,
Have you tried WildBlue satellite internet? We have about 12 miles of UNpaved road to get to our land in Idaho, but can get WildBlue for the same price we pay for DSL in Minnesota. Not sure if they have service where you are, but you can always put your zip code in and check...

http://www.wildblue.com/getWildblue/availability.jsp

There is also another company that was recommended to us... my brain won't come up with the name now, though

Cheers,
Sarah

Edit later: My husband's brain is working better than mine today. He says the other company is Hughes.net. I see it is more expensive than WildBlue, but has a wider service area.

speleobat2 · Post by **speleobat2** » Tue Oct 23, 2007 11:48 am

Good morning everyone,

Out here in the country it is raining--finally!!! $\:D/$

Sarah: Hughes net is what is available from our satelite TV company, but it is too expensive. I've bookmarked the WildBlue site. Apparently, they were offering service in this area but outgrew their distributors. Their site says to "stay tuned" so I'll check back.

12 miles of dirt road--that's really out in the country! I'm just whining about the internet service. At least we have our own phone line. I can remember when my parents had an eight party line and the old woman down the street used to answer their ring before they did!

Carol

Post by **marilyn morning** » Wed Oct 24, 2007 8:46 pm

Hi Carol,

Finally I had a minute this afternoon to call the Providence City Archives in hopes of speaking with John, but he's on vacation until 17 Nov 2007. This man is like a walking encyclopedia, so I was a little disappointed that he'll be away for so long. However, I was able to speak with Claire and she told me that the 1910 Providence City Directory is listed by last name and not street address. Naturally, I asked her to look up Jessie Clerihew

Clerihew Jessie nurse 37 Parade (I can't read the rest, but will enlarge it and post it later tonight)

Claire also looked up "Hospitals" in the city directory and found

Parade Street Hospital 37 Parade.

She just called me back and said she found something else, but I'm not sure what at the moment, but she plans on faxing it over shortly.

Along with Jessie's listing there's also one for your grandfather James living at 60 Davis and John a machinist is also at 60 Davis. (Who's John?)

Next I made a quick call to Ken at the Rhode Island Archvies and inquied about the records for the Parade Street Hospital. Ken said John (from Providence Archives would know

) Ken told me, that when a hospital closes down, their records are normally sent to the Rhode Island Medical Society, who would retain them for 7-10 years, before the records would be destroyed.

I was just about to sign off and my fax rang and its from Claire.

She writes that John just called in, so she asked him about Parade Street

"John just called, he said you could try calling the State Dept. of Health regarding the old records" and he told me where to look this up (which explains those missing address's and notice the name "Dexter"

Claire wrote

"I found this in one of our books, regarding 37 Parade Street. It is listed as 31-41 Parade Street"

Parade Street

Dexter Training Ground, now know as Dexter Parade (1824)
A ten acre tract of flat open land willed to the city by Ebenezer Knight Dexter with the provision that it alsways be used as a drill field and park. The statue of Dexter was raised in 1874, and the tract became part of the city park system in 1893. Its southern end became the site of the Cranston Street Armory in 1907 (see 375 Cranston Street) and the training ground was landscaped in 1909.

Regards
Marilyn

speleobat2 · Post by **speleobat2** » Wed Oct 24, 2007 9:38 pm

Hi Marilyn,

Now that's interesting about the parade ground being landscaped in 1907 because the 1910 Census has Jessie and those 5 other nurses working at 37 Parade in 1910. Unless the sanitarium was at the other end of this area?

I had found the information in the Providence directories earlier. In fact, that's one of the places I was using to track Alexander Longmuir and the others. John was my grandfather's brother and youngest of the siblings. He moves around quite a bit--goes off to Chicago, returns, go to Bridgeport, Conn., gets married, and finally moves to Detroit about 1926.

He inspired quite a bit of envy in my father because he made more money as a machinist than my grandfather did working the assembly line. My grandfather gave up working as a jeweler once he had a family to support and my Dad saw that as a loss of status too. John went on to start his own construction business which was successful enough that my father was very jealous of his cousins. That's one reason why we know so little about his family. He never wanted to talk about them. I can't remember ever meeting them, don't know a thing about their children and we lived about twenty miles apart! What a shame!

John lived to be just a month or so short of 100 years old.

I'm off on my trek up north tomorrow morning. I was able to contact the cemetery in Michigan where my grandparents, Jessie, and Mary Munro are buried and plan a visit and pictures there too. I'm taking my laptop so I may get at least my great grandfather's gravestone posted while I'm on the road.

Carol

Post by **marilyn morning** » Wed Oct 24, 2007 11:17 pm

Claire wrote

"I found this in one of our books, regarding 37 Parade Street. It is listed as 31-41 Parade Street"

Parade Street

Dexter Training Ground, now know as Dexter Parade (1824)
A ten acre tract of flat open land willed to the city by Ebenezer Knight Dexter with the provision that it alsways be used as a drill field and park. The statue of Dexter was raised in 1874, and the tract became part of the city park system in 1893. Its southern end became the site of the Cranston Street Armory in 1907 (see 375 Cranston Street) and the training ground was landscaped in 1909.

Hi Carol,

The pieces of this puzzle were pulled together today with this lastest information. Let me explain

Ebenezer's wishes were not carried out, because this area is built up all around the Cranston Street Armory. The Cranston Street Armory was built for the Rhode Island National Guard and when I stood on the corner of Parade and Cranston Street the CSA was to my right and less then a 1/2 of a block away. If 37 Parade Street is listed as 31-41 Parade Street in this directory, then I'm thinking that 37 had to be some sort of Military Hospital? Only a guess on my part, but one I need to remember to ask John? Here's some information on the armory

http://www.nationaltrust.org/11Most/list.asp?i=132

Baby George was buried in Pocassett Cemetery which is located on Dexter Street, so this ties in and I found out today that Pocassett Cemetery is close by.

Looking forward to hearing what you find out from your trip.

Regards
Marilyn

speleobat2 · Post by **speleobat2** » Thu Oct 25, 2007 2:08 am

Marilyn,

Looks like I'm going to have to leave this to you for a few days. I just did a lot of Googling, but didn't turn up anything on a Parade St. hospital. Looks like the RI Historical Society has all the old newspapers, but it is there and I am here!

I did find a website for history of nursing articles, but don't have time to start reading right now. I bookmarked it so I can get back to it.

This certainly is turning out to be an interesting search! Thanks again for your time!

Carol