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Fields Point
Fields Point (also known as Field's Point) is a historic park in Providence, Rhode Island jutting into Narragansett Bay right near the Providence River and Route 95.
==History==
The point was named after Thomas Field, a British colonist who settled on the site in the 17th century and constructed a stone-ender house. In the 19th century, Fields Point Farm, a park, developed as the major recreational area in the city until Roger Williams Park was created in 1871.〔(Save the Bay website ) (accessed November 14, 2008)〕 Visitors came to the Point to visit Colonel Atwell's Clam House, Edgewood Beach, The Washington Park Yacht Club and Kerwin's Beach.〔(Save the Bay website ) (accessed November 14, 2008)〕
Following the attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941, the US Maritime Commission selected Field's Point as a location for a shipyard as part of the Emergency Shipbuilding Program. Much of what had previously been there was sacrificed to wartime necessity. The yard was eventually taken over by the Walsh-Kaiser Company.
In the 1950s, Providence started using Fields Point as a landfill, eventually connecting the Point with nearby Starve Goat Island.〔(Save the Bay website ) (accessed November 14, 2008)〕 In the 1960s, entrepreneur, Melvin Berry started "bar, marina, swim club, amusement park, bowling alley, drive-in theatre, skating rink and a nightly Hawaiian dance show" in Fields Point.〔(Save the Bay website ) (accessed November 14, 2008)〕 Circa the mid to late 1960's, Fields Point was also utilized as an operations base for high speed testing between Westerly and Boston of the Gas turbine Turbo Train,〔http://www.exporail.org/can_rail/Canadian%20Rail_no192_1967.pdf Canadian Rail, number 192, 1967, page 9, CN Tests Turbo Train, "''After completion of these runs, they will then be sent to the United Aircraft Company's plant near Providence, Rhode Island, for further experiments, and will be back in Canada during the winter fur'' () ''a series of cold-weather trials. While no date has been set for the inauguration of Passenger services, the Canadian National's aim is to have the Turbos operational by next spring.''" (from context, assumed to be referring to Spring 1968)〕 before acting as a train graveyard for the three trainsets after September 1976.〔http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1310&dat=19770410&id=wjRWAAAAIBAJ&sjid=zOcDAAAAIBAJ&pg=4555,2619267 Eugene Register-Guard, April 10, 1977, Amtrak peddling it's headaches, "''The trains were taken from service last September and now are idle at the Field's Point Maintenance Yard near Providence, RI''"〕 In 1973, Johnson & Wales University established a facility in Fields Point, but by 2001, the university leased land to Save The Bay for an educational center.〔(Save the Bay website ) (accessed November 14, 2008)〕 In late 2012 a three-turbine wood farm was installed at Fields Point to provide energy for the waste water treatment plant.〔"Providence wind turbines churn out more power than projected" Providence Journal 12/29/13 http://www.providencejournal.com/breaking-news/content/20131229-providence-wind-turbines-churn-out-more-power-than-projected.ece〕
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