Projo Asks, 'Where Is This?' – Here In EG, We Know Answer

I'm doing my morning peruse of Rhode Island websites today and on the Providence Journal's site, there's a headline, third from the top, asking "Waterfront R.I., Where and When?" 

Well, shoot, I think. That's Scalloptown!

Not Scalloptown Park, which – as Alan Clarke and Ray Huling have taken pains to point out – is a misnomer for the old town dump at the top of Greenwich Cove.

Rather, Scalloptown the waterfront community of yore that stretched from King Street to London Street. It was where the scallop was king and lots of local men made a decent – if hard – living on the water. The photos are terrific and the piece includes an article from Oct. 16, 1938, nearly a month after the ruinous hurricane, about how the water rose 12 feet higher than it had ever been known to before and washed away an idustry already in decline.

Well worth the read!