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Cranston

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Cranston, industrial city (1990 pop. 76,060), Providence co., central R.I., a residential suburb of Providence; inc. as a town 1754, as a city 1910. Its manufactures include machinery, plastics, rubber products, and chemicals. The city was named for Samuel Cranston, a colonial governor of Rhode Island. In the 19th cent., Cranston was an important textile center. The Friends Meeting House (1729) and several pre-Revolutionary buildings still stand.
Cranston 

a city in the northeastern USA, in New England, in the state of Rhode Island. An industrial suburb of Providence. Population, 73,000 (1970). Cranston is one of the oldest centers of the American textile industry. It has a metalworking industry and produces industrial equipment. The city was founded in the first half of the 17th century.
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