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Johnston

Town in Providence County, north-central Rhode Island; population (1990) 26,500. It borders on Providence to the east and Cranston to the south.

Johnston was an agricultural community before textile mills were established here in the 19th century. The modern economy is based on insurance services and the manufacture of worsted yarns, machinery, jewellry, fabricated metals, and textiles.



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The rabble by shouting and noise having increased their numbers to several thousands, they began with Sir Patrick Johnston, who was one of the treaters, and the year before had been Lord Provost.
English Literature For Boys And Girls by Marshall, H.E. View in context
So rapidly did he gain the esteem of his new companions, that when they reached the end of their wanderings, it was unanimously agreed that he should be provided with as large and as fertile a tract of land as any of the settlers, with the exception of Young himself, and of Stangerson, Kemball, Johnston, and Drebber, who were the four principal Elders.
A Study In Scarlet by Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan View in context
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