UPDATE

The Tockwotton Fox Point Cape Verdean 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

Kate Mulvaney, Providence Journal
Sunday, August 14, 2022

“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.”

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A new and old map of Providence overlayed on top of each other.

Image: SPIA Media Productions

August 24, 2024 South Main Street renaming to Tockwotton Cape Verdean Way

A large bunch of community members standing in the street at the renaming ceremony.

June 2, 2024 90th St Antonio Procession, Providence RI

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. The SPIA Media documentary collection is available on Kanopy, a leading streaming video service providing quality educational content to schools, colleges, universities, and libraries and YouTube.

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What is  the “Tockwotton” Fox Point Cape Verdean Heritage Place?

The Fox Point Cape Verdean Memorial Place, created by Carol R. Johnson, an internationally acclaimed landscape architect, is a wonderful opportunity to both recognize the contributions of the Fox Point Cape Verdean community in Providence and create a sustainable legacy and monument that will be enjoyed for generations to come. We can build this park together!