Editing East Greenwich, Rhode Island (section)

===Scalloptown===
[[File:Scalloptown-shanties-2048x1598.jpg|thumb|right| Scalloptown shanties in the early 20th Century]] 
In the 19th Century, East Greenwich attracted a wave of immigrants from Ireland, Italy, Germany, and Scandinavian countries, as well as free Blacks.<ref name="Landeck" /> Many settled in a small community which came to be known as Scalloptown, as many residents made a living from fishing and selling scallops.<ref name="Landeck" />  As it grew, the neighborhood of immigrants and mixed ethnicities developed a reputation as a "shantytown" of "low and lawless nature" by white writers and community leaders.<ref name="Landeck" /> The neighborhood's height was from 1890 to 1913.<ref name="Landeck" /> In 1913, the town council condemned many of the residences of Scalloptown as unfit for habitation.<ref name="Landeck" /> Currently, only one shellfish processing business remains on the street.

Most of East Greenwich's neighborhood of Scalloptown was destroyed by 1926, after a mass eviction order by the town council left most of its buildings vacant. Scalloptown had been the attention of reformers in town for some time. Scalloptown was the site of "Neighborhood House", a [[settlement house]] run by [[Sarah Fernandis]] from 1908 on.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Streich |first1=Catherine |title=Beginning & End of EG's Black Enclave: Scalloptown, Part One |url=https://eastgreenwichnews.com/scalloptown-beginning-and-end-of-egs-black-enclave-part-one/ |website=East Greenwich News |access-date=December 12, 2020 |date=August 1, 2020}}</ref> But, historian Catherine Streich argues, the racial prejudices of white East Greenwich residents and their dwindling desire for social reform led to their destruction of Scalloptown.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Streich |first1=Catherine |title=Reform – What Went Wrong? Scalloptown, Part Two |url=https://eastgreenwichnews.com/reform-what-went-wrong-scalloptown-part-two/ |website=East Greenwich News |access-date=December 12, 2020 |date=August 2, 2020}}</ref>