Johnston is a town in Providence County, Rhode Island, United States.

Johnston is the site of the Clemence Irons House (1691), a stone-ender museum,[3] and the only landfill in Rhode Island.

Neighborhoods in Johnston: Winsor Hill, Thornton (includes part of Cranston), Graniteville, Hughesdale, Morgan Mills, Manton, Simmonsville, Pocasset, West End, Belknap, and Frog City.

The area was first settled by English settlers in the seventeenth century as a farming community.

During the American Revolution Rhode Island's only gunpowder mill was constructed in Graniteville, and the town hosted American General John Sullivan for a dinner in 1779 upon his departure from Rhode Island to fight in New York.

[10] In 2023, the statue was donated to the city and placed in Memorial Park with the unveiling held on Columbus Day.

This decision was not without controversy, as school officials, parents and teachers complained of inadequate staffing, increased neighborhood traffic and lack of attention for special-needs students.

In 2018, Providence-based Citizens Bank opened a $285 million corporate campus in the town.