A Walking tour of Warwick, Rhode Island (Look Up, America!)

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It is conveniently located near all the major business, cultural and recreation centers of New England. Providence is only ten minutes away; Boston but one hour. Cape Cod can be reached in about seventy-five minutes and the Connecticut Casinos in less than an hour. With the airport, interstate highways and rail service New York is easily reached, as are the ski slopes of the northern states.

Warwick is at "The Crossroads of New England. Warwick's natural beauty along Greenwich Bay, its historical significance and modern potential continue to attract tourists, business, movie producers and those looking for the serenity of a suburban area with the advantages of a modern city.

Warwick provides that and more as it has made a dynamic impact on Rhode Island in the late 20th and 21st centuries.

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Thanks to many spirited leaders in both the community and City Hall, Warwick has come to realize that its heritage mirrors that of the state and the country. Warwick, probably more than any other community in Rhode Island, has had many trials and tribulations in its fight to establish the freedoms we so dearly cherish today. Much of the struggle and the success can be found by studying the history of its villages and their impact on the city. Each month, the Warwick Historical Society prepares and displays historically significant memorabilia in the main lobby of Warwick City Hall.

Stop by and learn more about the history of Warwick today! Thank you for visiting the Warwick Digital Hi story Project. For more information about Warwick, Rhode Island, please visit the sites listed below. The History of the Warwick Police Department As the municipal center of Warwick, Apponaug was also the center of the early police stations.

The Origin of the Seal of the City of Warwick Warwick was founded in as a town called Shawomet, after the local Indian tribe from whom the land on the west shore of Narragansett Bay was purchased. The Burning of the H.

Warwick’s Villages and Historic Places - Introduction

Gaspee Shortly before midnight on June 9, , approximately sixty armed men from Providence, Rhode Island set out in eight longboats for Namquid Point where His Majesty's Ship Gaspee had run aground. Welcome to Warwick History. In , President Rutherford B. Hayes became the first president to use the newly-invented telephone when he made a short eight-mile 13 km call from Rocky Point to Providence.

Conimicut Light was the last lighthouse in the United States to be converted to electricity.


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From Kerosene in Joseph Bucklin, the man who shot Col. After few buildings were added and when the village name was changed in to Kingston the population was still less than A few years later the school that is now the University of Rhode Island arrived but it developed to the north of Kinston Village. That description would apply to our walking tour, except that there are more cars on Kingstown Road and the trees are 80 years older What looks today like a well-groomed, peaceful stone house was in fact the county jail when it was built in The granite walls are buried three feet in the ground and are three feet thick.

If any prisoner thought about tunneling to freedom the floors were two feet thick with a coating of concrete. The ceilings are stone and the doors and windows made of heavy iron. The first Kingston jail was built across the street and replaced with a two-story wooden jail on this site in Breakouts were common with such a set-up. In two prisoners escaped by burning part of the jail and in came the Great Escape - everyone broke out. There were still escapes after this fortress was constructed but they were not the fault of the building.

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Kingston Congregational Church Kingstown Road. The first Congregationalist sermons in Kingstown were preached in Construction on the current church began in July of on land donated by Elisha Reynolds Potter who served several times as the Speaker in the Rhode Island State Assembly and as a United States Representative from to and to On January 17, the meetinghouse was dedicated; the town clock arrived in John Douglas House Kingstown Road. The core of this two-story yellow frame house with a gable roof, central stone chimney, green shutter, small-paned windows and a side ell, is one of the oldest in Kingston, erected in Kingston Hill Store Kingstown Road.

This two-story building of weathered clapboards was built in as a general store.

It has been an emporium of sorts ever since, most recently dispensing rare books and antiques. Tavern Hall Kingstown Road at Route Elisha Reynolds built this frame structure in after purchasing the land from Henry Knowles. Reynolds was grandfather of Elisha Reynolds Potter who served for some thirty years in the Rhode Island legislature, was four times elected to the federal Congress, and in was unsuccessful candidate for the governor of this state.

But the house is remembered more for its legacy after it departed the Reynolds family. Its successor was the South County Journal in , which became the Narragansett Times that continues to operate out of Wakefield. Beginning in the building was used to house visitors to Kingston, including students attending the state agricultural school that became the University of Rhode Island. One early visitor was Viennese opera star Pauline Lucca who came to rest in Kingston after a strenuous performance run in New York City. She enjoyed her stay so much she requested the inn be called the Lucca House.

In the Tavern Hall Club, an organization of students, faculty and village residents began meeting here. In the club became institutional sponsor of Boy Scout Troop 1, Kingston, one of the oldest continuously operating boy scout troops in America.


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