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Website. barrington .ri .gov. Barrington is a suburban, residential town in Bristol County, Rhode Island, United States, approximately 7 miles (11 km) southeast of Providence. As of the 2020 United States Census, the population was 17,153. Barrington was founded by Congregationalist separatists from Swansea, Massachusetts, and incorporated in ...
December 12, 1976. Barrington Civic Center Historic District is a historic district in Barrington, Rhode Island on County Road. The district, which consists of the Barrington Town Hall, Leander R. Peck School and Prince's Hill Cemetery, is located on Prince's Hill near the center of Barrington. In 1728, Prince's Hill Cemetery was purchased and ...
Belton Court (also known as Ferrin Hall, Barrington College, Gibson Memorial Building, and Peck Mansion) is a historic estate on Middle Highway in Barrington, Rhode Island. The mansion was built for Frederick Stanhope Peck, a businessman, socialite, and Rhode Island political figure. Later in the twentieth century, the mansion and surrounding ...
John Kostrzewa’s book, “Walking Rhode Island: 40 Hikes for Nature and History Lovers with Pictures, GPS Coordinates and Trail Maps,” is available at local booksellers, retailers and at ...
June 10, 2005. The Alfred Drowne Road Historic District of Barrington, Rhode Island, encompasses a suburban area developed between about 1860 and 1910, a period of significant suburban growth in Barrington spurred by the connection of the town by rail to Providence in 1855. This 27-acre (11 ha) residential area was before that time farmland ...
The Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations was one of the original Thirteen Colonies established on the east coast of America, bordering the Atlantic Ocean. It was founded by Roger Williams. It was an English colony from 1636 until 1707, and then a colony of Great Britain until the American Revolution in 1776, when it became the ...
Coordinates: 41.740485°N 71.307107°W. Barrington Preservation Society is a museum and preservation society in Barrington, Rhode Island . The BPS was founded in 1885 as the “Barrington Historic Antiquarian Society” and renamed the “Barrington Preservation Society” in 1965. The society is dedicated to telling the history of the Town of ...
The following properties and districts in Barrington, Rhode Island, are on the National Register of Historic Places. Contents: Counties in Rhode Island Bristol | Kent | Newport | Providence | Washington