CRANSTON  , a

city of Providence county, Rhode Island, U.S.A., adjoining the city of Providence on the S . Pop . (18go) 8099; (1900) 13,343; (1910) 21,107; area, 30 sq. m . It is served by the New York, New Haven & Hartford railway . The surface of the E. part is level, that of the W. part is some-what rolling . Within the city are several villages, including Arlington, Auburn, Edgewood, Fiskeville and Oaklawn . The inhabitants of the country districts are engaged largely in the growing of hay, Indian corn, rye, oats and market-garden produce; in the several villages cotton and print goods, fuses for electrical machinery, and automatic fire-protection sprinklers are manufactured . The value of Cranston's factory product increased from $1,402,359 in 1900 to $2,130,969 in 1905, or 52% . The state has a farm of 667 acres in the S. part of the city; on this are the state prison, the Providence county jail, the state workhouse and the house of correction, the state alms-house, the state hospital for the insane, the Sockanosset school for boys, and the Oaklawn school for girls—the last two being departments of the state reform school . The post-office address of all these state institutions is Howard . Cranston was settled as a part of Providence about 164o by associates of Roger Williams, and in 1751. was incorporated as a separate township, but in 1868, in 1873 and in 1892 portions of it were reannexed to Providence . The township is said to have been named in honour of Samuel Cranston (1659-1929), governor of Rhode Island from 1698 until his death .

It was incorporated as a city in 1g1o .