Last updated: July 7, 2021
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Bernon Grove
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An upright granite tablet, similar in shape to a gravestone, within Bernon Grove was put in place around 1953. The monument reads: “Near This Spot Lived/Gabriel Bernon/A Huguenot Refugee/Born LaRochelle France/April 6, 1644/Died Providence/February 1, 1736/Merchant Colonizer Churchman.”
The Bernon Grove is the grassy area south of the Antram-Gray House which was given to the City of Providence in 1942 as a memorial to Gabriel Bernon, an early Providence resident, founder of King's Chapel (today, St. John's Cathedral located across the street from the memorial). Bernon's house was near this spot.The grove was initially established by Bernon descendants and parishioners of St. John's Cathedral who considered it an extension of the newly-created green space of Roger Williams Spring Park (todays Hahn Memorial). The memorial to Bernon contains Norway maples planted by the city in 1953, a stone retaining wall along North Main Street, (the remnants of foundations of buildings that once covered this area) and the Gabriel Bernon monument.
The Bernon Grove is the grassy area south of the Antram-Gray House which was given to the City of Providence in 1942 as a memorial to Gabriel Bernon, an early Providence resident, founder of King's Chapel (today, St. John's Cathedral located across the street from the memorial). Bernon's house was near this spot.The grove was initially established by Bernon descendants and parishioners of St. John's Cathedral who considered it an extension of the newly-created green space of Roger Williams Spring Park (todays Hahn Memorial). The memorial to Bernon contains Norway maples planted by the city in 1953, a stone retaining wall along North Main Street, (the remnants of foundations of buildings that once covered this area) and the Gabriel Bernon monument.