About Barrington, Rhode Island

Barrington is a town of 17,153 people in Bristol County, on the east side of Narragansett Bay about seven miles southeast of Providence. The Wampanoag held this land, which the Narragansetts knew as Sowams, and in 1653 a group of Plymouth Colony investors bought it from them. Baptists asked to break away from Swansea in 1711, and Barrington became a town of its own in 1717, probably named for Barrington in Somerset, England, home of several settlers. Rhode Island took it over in 1747 and joined it to Warren, but the legislature restored it as a separate town in 1770.

Farming carried the early town, with fields of corn, rye, oats and barley and orchards for apple cider, a valuable trade good. The Congregational church stood in the old southern center, but by 1737 the population was shifting north, where marshes and rich soil supported big farms, and a plan to move the church split the town. The church went north in the end, onto a lot Joshua Bicknell gave on County Road, and taverns, inns and farmhouses grew up around it.

  • Clay from Brickyard PondNathaniel Potter founded the Nayatt Brick Company in 1847 to work the deep clay beds at Brickyard Pond, using Mouscochuck Creek as a canal. In 1864 the business took the name Narragansett Brick Company, and from 1890 it competed with the New England Steam Brick Corporation. French-Canadians staffed the first yards, then a few hundred Italians came, and many Barrington families today descend from them. By 1900 the clay was starting to give out, and brickmaking ended by 1930.
  • Imitation leather on Bay Spring AvenueIn 1905 George B. Frost opened the Frost Finishing Company at 90 Bay Spring Avenue, one of the first plants to turn out artificial leather in quantity. Treasurer O'Bannon bought Frost out, and the mill, renamed for him, became the world's largest maker of imitation leather. After the company failed in 1926, other owners used the building until the 1970s. It became apartments for older residents in the early 1990s and joined the National Register in 1996 as O'Bannon Mill.
  • A light at Nayatt PointOn May 23, 1828, Congress set aside $3,500 for a light to mark the narrow channel running from Nayatt Point to a shoal off Conimicut Point, a guide for ships on the Providence River. The first tower was poorly built, so a brick lighthouse took its place in 1856, next to the keeper's house of 1828. The Nayatt Point Lighthouse joined the National Register in 1988.
  • Belton Court's graniteFrederick Stanhope Peck, a businessman and Rhode Island politician, built Belton Court in two campaigns, 1905 to 1906 and 1927 to 1928, from granite cut on his own estate, which once spread over 800 acres. He named it for the Peck family's early home in England and filled it with rare books and manuscripts, including letters of Roger Williams. The mansion later became home to Barrington College, and after it the Zion Bible Institute, which left in 2008.
  • Town hall of 1888Stone, Carpenter and Willson of Providence completed Barrington Town Hall on Prince's Hill in 1888. At first it held the town's offices, its library and its high school, and one stone in it is said to be from Plymouth Rock. The Leander R. Peck School, built of red Barrington brick, was a gift to the town from Sarah Gould Peck, honoring her late husband. It opened on September 14, 1917, and is now the Barrington Public Library.

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Places and landmarks36

  • Bay Spring
  • West Barrington
  • Peck Corner
  • Adams Point
  • Alfred Drowne Road Historic District
  • Allen--West House
  • Barrington Baptist Church
  • Barrington Beach
  • Barrington Civic Center Historic District
  • Barrington High School
  • Barrington Middle School
  • Barrington Presbyterian Church
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  • Barrington Preservation Society Museum
  • Barrington Public Library
  • Barrington United Methodist Church
  • Belton Court
  • Brewer's Cove Haven Marina
  • Doug Rayner Wildlife Refuge
  • Hampden Meadows School
  • Hampden Meadows Volunteer Fire Department
  • Jennys Lane Historic District
  • Johannis Farm
  • Nayatt Point Lighthouse
  • Nayatt School
  • O'Bannon Mill
  • Osamequin Nature Trails and Bird Sanctuary
  • Police Cove Park
  • Primrose Hill School
  • Saint Mathews Episcopal Church
  • Sand Point
  • Sowams Elementary School
  • Sowams Road
  • Stanley's Boat Yard
  • Striper Marina
  • Tall Cedars
  • Veterans Memorial Park

Streets and roads19

  • Mayfield Rd
  • Acre Ave
  • Western Ave
  • Lake Dr
  • Prosper St
  • Gansett Ave
  • Middle Hwy
  • Maple Ave
  • Waseca Ave
  • Kent St
  • Sunset Ct
  • Stanley Ave
  • Orchard Ave
  • Sowams Rd
  • Chachapacassett Rd
  • Rumstick Rd
  • Wildflower Rd
  • Point Rd
  • Hampnew Meadows School

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