Hard Scrabble and Snow Town
Hard Scrabble | |
|---|---|
Former neighborhood | |
Broadside ridiculing victims of the 1824 Hard Scrabble riot and promising similar treatment to other immigrants settling in the city | |
| Coordinates: 41°49′57″N 71°24′40″W / 41.8325°N 71.4111°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Rhode Island |
| City | Providence |
| Established | circa 1800 |
Hard Scrabble (Addison Hollow) and Snow Town were two neighborhoods located in Providence, Rhode Island in the nineteenth century. They were the sites of race riots in which working-class white residents destroyed multiple black homes and businesses in 1824 and 1831, respectively.