Our History

Two groups visited Whortleberry Island (also called Huckleberry Island) to put on Clam Bakes. Several members of the class of 1844, the first class to graduate from the "new" Providence High School, located on Benefit Street between Waterman and Angel Streets, known as the Benefit Street Boys, set sail in a borrowed Cat Boat on a Saturday in the summer of 1843, with some cooking utensils and landed on the Island to enjoy some seafood.