The Dark Corners section of North Kingstown was certainly the most remote and rural part. Situated in its extreme southwest corner near the borders of Exeter and South Kingstown, in an area for centuries more associated with the Narragansett people than their English usurpers. 

From approximately 1858 to 1860, they boarded in the home of Lewis Hayden and Harriet Bell Hayden at 66 Southac Street in Boston's West End/Beacon Hill neighborhood. After boarding with the Haydens, the Bannisters moved one block away to 28 Grove Street.

Around 1876, the Bannisters moved to the East Side. They rented a house at 67 Cushing Street. Ransom Parker, a leader in the local Black community, owned the house. BethelA.M.E. Church is labeled as “Colored M.E. Ch” and faces Meeting Street. Most of this area is now part of Brown University.

Map by Patricia Raub, March 2024

This 1870 map identifies some of the different locations the Bannisters lived and worked on College Hill. Ransom Parker's home is on Cushing Street. Below that is the Bethel AME Church on Meeting Street. In the lower right near Benevolent Street is the Bannister House. The Woods Building is on College Street, and the Providence Art Club is on 11 Thomas Street.

Squaw Hollow was a poor, working-class neighborhood north of Smith Hill, roughly between Orms Street and Martin Street. It was adjacent to Snowtown and the site of the 1832 execution of Amasa Walmsley. Squaw Hollow was a district known for tenements, boarding houses, and transient residents.

Edward probably kept his boat moored at Riverside. Most likely in Bullock's Cove. The Riverside shoreline lies along the eastern side of the Providence River and the northern end of Narragansett Bay. During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, this was an active maritime corridor connecting Providence, East Providence, Barrington, Bristol, Newport, and beyond. The river carried coastal schooners transporting lumber, coal, bricks, and farm products; fishing boats; oyster and shellfishing vessels; ferries; small private sailing craft.