CUMBERLAND, a town of Providence county, Rhode Island, U.S.A., in the north-eastern part of the State, on the Blackstone river and served by the New York, New Haven and Hartford railroad. The population in 193o (Federal census) was 10,304. Within its borders are ten villages, which manufacture cotton goods and silk. At Lonsdale, a village on the river, Wil liam Blackstone, the first permanent white settler in Rhode Island, built his residence "Study Hall" about 1635. Cumberland was originally part of Rehoboth, and then of Attleboro (Mass.) . In by royal decree, it was annexed to Rhode Island and the town was incorporated. Because of the variety of minerals within its borders it was named after Cumberland, England. In 1867 part of it was set off as the town of Woonsocket.