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A Walking Tour of East Greenwich, Rhode Island
By Doug Gelbert
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There is no better way to see America than on foot. And there is no better way to appreciate what you are looking at than with a walking tour. Whether you are preparing for a road trip or just out to look at your own town in a new way, a downloadable walking tour is ready to explore when you are.
Each walking tour describes historical and architectural landmarks and provides pictures to help out when those pesky street addresses are missing. Every tour also includes a quick primer on identifying architectural styles seen on American streets.
East Greenwich, bounded by the Narragansett Bay to the east and rolling coastal hills to the west, rests in the geographic center of Rhode Island. This was Pequot Indian land until King Charles II bought it in 1644. The General Assembly incorporated the town in 1677 and granted land to 48 men who served during King Philip’s War, one of the most overlooked, yet bloody, conflicts to have occurred on American soil. The town took its name from Greenwich, England in County Kent.
Greenwich developed as a trade center for the surrounding farms and was vibrant enough to be selected county seat in 1750 and the state General Assembly met here from 1750 until 1854 on a rotating basis with other four Rhode Island government seats. Over the decades light industry, mostly textile related, began mixing in with the commerce from the sea.
Our walking tour of downtown East Greenwich will find a bit of history preserved from the 1700s, the 1800s and 1900s, a bit of maritime history, a bit of military history, a bit of ecclesiastical history, and we’ll start in the center with a bit of governmental history...
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A Walking Tour of East Greenwich, Rhode Island - Doug Gelbert
A Walking Tour of Pawtucket, Rhode Island
a walking tour in the Look Up, America series from walkthetown.com
by Doug Gelbert
published by Cruden Bay Books at Smashwords
Copyright 2010 by Doug Gelbert
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording or by any information storage and retrieval system without permission in writing from the Publisher.
Roughly translated from the Narragansett dialect as the place by the waterfall,
Pawtucket is one of two Rhode Island cities - Woonsocket is the other - to retain its native place name since its settlement -. It is an appropriate honorific as those falls have played the critical part in the city’s growth since that beginning.
Thick stands of timber and rocky hills prevented the Rhode Islanders who followed Roger Williams from spreading out to the north after the 1630s. It was not until 1671 that Joseph Jencks, Jr.,
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