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3 unusual facts about Cranston


Ardon, Iowa

It is located at the intersection of 250th Street and Jasper Avenue, four miles east of Cranston, at 41.366543N, -94.317809W.

Louisa-Muscatine School District

The School District includes the cities of Grandview, Letts, Fruitland, and Cranston as well as student from various other local communities.

Robert Aldrich

Aldrich was born in Cranston, Rhode Island, the son of Lora Lawson and newspaper publisher Edward Burgess Aldrich.


Catherine Cranston

The tea rooms are now owned by the Glasgow bakery HR Bradfords, who also own the UK intellectual property for the Miss Cranston name and who supply the cakes and confectionery to their tea rooms.

CICZ-FM

The studios moved in 1990 to a new facility on Cranston Crescent off Highway 12 in Midland, in a facility that also housed Telemedia's community newspapers.

CODAC Behavioral Healthcare

CODAC has offices located in the Rhode Island communities of Cranston, Providence, Newport, East Providence, and Wakefield.

Coin Street Community Builders

The Executive Director is Iain Tuckett and the Finance Director is Peter Cranston Stephens.

Donald Pomerleau

It even became a matter for local humor as one time at an event, Mayor William Donald Schaefer, showed up with a long black cape draped and curled around his body and arm, topped by a black slouch fedora hat of the 1940's detective-style novels and cartoons or the old prime-time radio drama "The Shadow" with character "Lamont Cranston".

Henry Y. Cranston

Cranston was elected as a Law and Order candidate to the Twenty-eighth Congress.

History of Rhode Island

Cranston Mayors Edward D. DiPrete and Stephen Laffey, Governor Donald Carcieri of East Greenwich, and former Mayor Vincent A. "Buddy" Cianci of Providence ran as Republican reform candidates.

John Hopkins Clarke

He was clerk of the supreme court of Providence County in 1813 and proprietor of a distillery in Cranston until 1824 when he became a cotton manufacturer in Providence, Pontiac, and Woonsocket.

Mayoral Academies

The eight Rhode Island municipal leaders supporting the plan were Joseph Almond, Town Administrator of Lincoln, RI; James E. Doyle, Mayor of Pawtucket, RI; Daniel J. McKee, Mayor of Cumberland, RI; Charles Moreau, Mayor of Central Falls, RI; David Cicilline, Mayor of Providence, RI; Charles Lombardi, Mayor of North Providence, RI; Michael T. Napolitano, Mayor of Cranston, RI; and Joe Polisena, Mayor of Johnston, RI.

Rhode Island Reds FC

Based in Providence, Rhode Island and playing home games out of Cranston Stadium in neighboring Cranston, Rhode Island, the club took its name from the state bird, the Rhode Island Red.

Richard Spruce

Throughout the twentieth century, countless adventurers and explorers, including Colonel Edwards Cranston Brooks and Commander George Miller Dyott, used Spruce's paper in their quest for the Treasure of the Llanganatis.

Westcott House

Nathan Westcott House, Cranston, Rhode Island, listed on the NRHP in Rhode Island


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