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The Pawtuxet Village Historic District boasts dozens of preserved Colonial structures among its scenic blend of homes and buildings. The mouth of the Pawtuxet River was a strategic location to settle, and gave boats a safe harbor and the village considerable importance in the triangular trade of the day, and shipyards for the coastal and West ...
Thanks to its location and a number of historically minded citizens, much of Pawtuxet exudes the charm and serenity of an early 19th century village. To make it even more special, Pawtuxwet has a number of fine Colonial dwellings and significant historical sites.
Pawtuxet Village is one of New England's oldest communities. By 1638, only two years after Roger Williams founded Providence, settlers had established a hamlet around the falls and cove where the Pawtuxet River flows into upper Narragansett Bay.
As a result, Pawtuxet was able to escape the destruction of historic places and maintain the fabric that made it such a charming late-nineteenth and early-twentieth-century village. Today, Pawtuxet residents take great pride in their village.
Pawtuxet Village is not only the oldest village in Warwick; it's the oldest village in New England, settled in 1642. The most serious early act of defiance of the American Revolution occurred in Warwick, even before the Boston Tea Party, off Pawtuxet Village on June 8, 1772, when the British revenue schooner, the Gaspee, was burned. Gaspee.com.
Settled in 1638, Pawtuxet Village, at the mouth of the Pawtuxet River, is the oldest node of development in Cranston.
Pawtuxet Village is one of the first registered historic districts in the country and sits on the Pawtuxet River in both Warwick and Cranston. It is unique as one of the first settled communities in RI and contains a varied collection of homes and history of commerce on the waterfront.
