UPDATES
The SPIA team is working on a new site that features the digital mile of Tockwotton Fox Point Cape Verdean History
Road to ruin
Route 195 sliced through a once-vibrant community in Fox Point
‘Before the highway’s construction and completion in the 1960s, the Cape Verdean community stretched from Planet Street and South Main Street through to India Point Park. South Main Street rested at its heart, though it was dubbed ‘one of the worst slum areas in the city’ by the Providence Redevelopment Agency in a 1951 report..300 families, 172 homes, and 32 businesses were displaced, and two schools were demolished.’”
Kate Mulvany, (Sunday August 14, 2022). ‘Traumatic’: How Route 195 uprooted the Cape Verdean community in Providence’s Fox Point. Providence Journal
Image: SPIA Media Productions
June 2, 2024 90th St Antonio Procession, Providence RI
AUGUST 24, 2024
South Main Street was renamed to Tockwotton Cape Verdean Way
Support
In 2016, SPIA Media Productions, Inc., the content producer for Tockwotton Fox Point Cape Verdean Heritage Place, migrated over thirty years of historical, educational, and archival film and video content about the history of Cape Verde and the Tockwotton Fox Point Cape Verdean community to digital formats and platforms.
Your tax-deductible contribution to CID support SPIA’s ongoing educational, documentary, archival projects, immersive experiences, forward-facing public initiatives, legacy projects, events, walking tours and digital mapping of a chronological timeline that reconstitutes the history of Rhode Island’s first Cape Verdean neighborhood on existing and emerging digital platforms.
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