About Coventry, Rhode Island

Coventry is a town of 35,688 people in Kent County, reaching from West Warwick all the way west to the Connecticut line. The first English colonists farmed this ground early in the 18th century, back when it was a remote corner of Warwick. By 1741 roughly 100 families had settled, so they petitioned the General Assembly for a separate town. The Assembly agreed, and the new town was named for Coventry in England.

Mills changed the east end in the 19th century. William and Richard Anthony opened a textile mill in 1805 in the Quaker village that took their name, and more factories followed at Washington, Quidnick and Harris. The work drew French Canadian and Irish families, and by the end of the 1800s almost a fourth of Coventry's people had been born abroad. French became the everyday language in much of eastern Coventry.

  • General Greene's home, 1770Nathanael Greene was living in Coventry as the Revolution started, and he ended the war as second in command to George Washington. In 1770 he built Spell Hall at 50 Taft Street on 2,000 acres, and he kept more than 300 books in its front room. The Greene family held the house until 1899. Restorers organized in 1919, and they opened it as a museum in 1924.
  • The 7:25 milk trainGreene was only a swamp crossed by a cart path until the railroad came in the early 1850s. The stop began as Coffin Station, and in 1856 the railroad renamed it for the general. Farmers met the 7:25 train to Providence with milk, and the village also shipped wood and cranberries. From 1880 Advent Christian camp meetings drew as many as 10,000 people. The depot closed in 1969, and the rail bed became the 15 mile Coventry Greenway.
  • An iron truss from 1888The Dean and Westbrook firm built the Arkwright Bridge in 1888, paid for by the town and the Interlaken Mills, to carry Hill Street across the Pawtuxet River where it divides Coventry from Cranston. The iron truss runs 128 feet, 6 inches, and it was added to the National Register in 1978. The two communities shut it to traffic in 2011, and it has sat unused since then.
  • The town poor farmJoseph Briggs built his farmhouse around 1790. In 1851 Coventry bought it from his heirs to house and feed the town's poor, and the farm served that purpose into the 1930s. It survives as the Joseph Briggs House, or Coventry Town Farm, and is now a two-family home.
  • A tavern for Connecticut travelersRice Tavern opened in 1804 on Plainfield Pike, in the northwest corner of town, to serve travelers heading to Connecticut. Rice City grew up around it, stretching for several miles along the road, and in 1846 the village gained a church. The Rice City Historic District has been listed on the National Register since 1980.

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Names on the Coventry map

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Places and landmarks9

  • Anthony
  • Greene
  • Washington
  • Rice City
  • Arkwright
  • Potterville
  • Hopkins Hollow
  • Summit
  • Pawtuxet Valley

Streets and roads6

  • Nicholas Rd
  • Sand Hill Rd
  • Fish Hill Rd
  • Matteson Rd
  • Phillips Hill Rd
  • Hill Rd

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The art of mapping a place

How This Map Was Made

Real places. Remarkable detail. Discover the layers that turn geographic data into a map of home.

  1. Aerial imagery of Mendon, Massachusetts, from the USDA NAIP program

    The view from above

    Aerial imagery reveals the character of the land: woodland, open fields, and the patterns of a place.

  2. USGS elevation data rendered as shaded relief of Mendon, Massachusetts

    The shape of the land

    Elevation data brings hills, valleys, and subtle changes in the landscape into view.

  3. Closeup of roads, waterways, and buildings on the Mendon, Massachusetts map

    The details of home

    Roads, waterways, and building footprints come together to make the map feel unmistakably local.

  4. Finished Mendon, Massachusetts map shown in a black frame

    Geography becomes art

    Considered color, shading, and typography bring the layers together in a map made for your wall.

Process illustrated with Mendon, Massachusetts. Aerial imagery: USDA NAIP. Terrain: USGS 3D Elevation Program. Map details and finished artwork: KNOWOL.

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