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Roger Williams Park in southern Providence, Rhode Island is an elaborately-landscaped 450-acre city park and national historic district. It is named after the founder of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, Roger Williams. The park also contains seven lakes which comprise approximately 98 acres. It is located in the southernmost part of the city bordering Cranston, RI. The park was designed by Horace Cleveland in 1878, and was constructed in the 1880s. Many of the roads, bridges and sidewalks were built by the Works Progress Administration from 1935 to 1940. Currently it contains the Roger Williams Park Zoo, the Roger Williams Park Museum of Natural History and Planetarium, The RWP Botanical Center, the Providence Police Department's Mounted Command center, a Japanese garden, the Dalrymple Boathouse and boat rentals, historical tours, a Carousel Village for children that includes the "Hasbro Boundless Playground" which is accessible for handicapped children, the Temple To Music, the Roger Williams Park Casino, large greenspaces, and many walking paths.
The National Trust for Historic Preservation has declared RWP to be one of the finest urban parks in the US.[2]
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