About Warwick, Rhode Island

Warwick is a city of 82,823 people in Kent County, the third-largest in Rhode Island, and its entire eastern side faces the Providence River, Narragansett Bay or Greenwich Bay. Samuel Gorton bought the Shawomett tract from Miantonomi, a Narragansett sachem, paying 144 fathoms of wampum, and settled there in 1642. The purchase also covered the land that is now Coventry and West Warwick.

Sacononoco and Pumham, two more sachems, said they had never agreed to the sale and placed their land under Massachusetts. In 1643 Massachusetts sent militia to arrest Gorton and his followers, and most of the Gortonists surrendered; only three held out. Gorton sailed to England for a charter and won it with the help of Robert Rich, second Earl of Warwick, so the settlers named their colony Warwick in his honor.

  • The Gaspee burned in 1772In 1772 local patriots boarded the Gaspee, a British revenue schooner sent to enforce the Stamp Act and Townshend Acts in Narragansett Bay. Its commander, Lt. Dudingston, was shot and badly wounded, and many count that wound as the Revolution's first blood. The raiders stripped the ship of its cannons and arms and burned it. Since 1965 Warwick and Cranston have held Gaspee Days each June, with a parade and a reenactment at Pawtuxet Park.
  • Rocky Point, from 1847Captain William Winslow was serving dinners at Rocky Point by 1847, and his park grew into one of the state's most popular attractions. Crowds rode the Skyliner and the Corkscrew loop coaster, and the Shore Dinner Hall seated more than 4,000 people, who came to eat clam cakes and chowder. Tryouts for the 1936 Olympics were held in the park's salt-water pool.
  • The light off Conimicut PointConimicut Point is where the Providence River ends and Narragansett Bay begins. The sparkplug lighthouse off the point went up in the early 1880s on a pneumatic caisson, replacing a light from 1868, and it was among the last acetylene lights changed over to electricity. It joined the National Register in 1988, and the city took it over in 2004.
  • Apponaug, place of oystersApponaug sits on a cove of Greenwich Bay, and its name comes from a Narragansett word meaning "place of oysters." It grew into the center of the city, home to Warwick City Hall, the police and fire headquarters and the post office. When the state rerouted traffic through the village in the 1960s, it built a one-way rotary that was supposed to be temporary, and the rotary is still there.

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Names on the Warwick map

Every name below is printed on this map. Look for your street, your school, the park where you played, or the pond down the road.

Places and landmarks10

  • Apponaug
  • Buttonwoods
  • Pawtuxet
  • Potowomut
  • Shawomet
  • Cowesett
  • Oakland Beach
  • Norwood
  • Warwick Neck
  • Rocky Point

Streets and roads19

  • Natick Rd
  • Jefferson Blvd
  • Airport Rd
  • Church Ave
  • Corona St
  • Vera St
  • Centerville Rd
  • Cowesett Rd
  • Major Potter Rd
  • Main Ave
  • Keeley Ave
  • Ottawa Ave
  • Bay Ave
  • Narragansett Ave
  • Shand Ave
  • Custer St
  • Canfield Ave
  • Gilbert Stuart Dr
  • Ives 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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