Fields Point

[1] The point was named after William Field, a British colonist who settled in Providence, RI with an acreage and a house on what is now South Main Street.

[2] Following the attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941, the US Maritime Commission selected Field's Point as a location for a shipyard as part of the Emergency Shipbuilding Program.

The facility is now a (combined Army, Navy, Marine) Armed Forces Reserve Center.

[2] In the 1960s, entrepreneur, Melvin Berry started "bar, marina, swim club, amusement park, bowling alley, drive-in theatre, indoor ice skating rink and a nightly Hawaiian dance show" in Fields Point.

[2] In late 2012 a three-turbine wind farm was installed at Fields Point to provide energy for the waste water treatment plant.