Union Village, Rhode Island
Union Village Historic District | |
 Peleg Arnold's house on Great Road, built ca. 1690, one of the oldest homes in North Smithfield and center of American military operations in the town during the American Revolution | |
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| Nearest city | Woonsocket, Rhode Island |
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| Coordinates | 41°59′28″N 71°32′13″W / 41.99111°N 71.53694°W |
| Area | 16 acres (6.5 ha) |
| Architect | Allen, Walter |
| Architectural style | Italianate, Federal |
| NRHP reference No. | 78000011 [1] |
| Added to NRHP | July 28, 1978 |
Union Village or "Bank Village" is a village and historic district located in
History
Union Village was originally named Bank Village, and was the site of the first bank in northern Rhode Island, in 1805. The area was part of the original Edward Inman-John Mowry purchase from the Native Americans in 1666. Richard Arnold Jr. settled in the Union Village area in the late 17th century and the area was predominantly a farming community. In the 1800s the Bank in the village was called the Union Bank and the village received its name from the bank. The house containing the bank vault is still intact (2007). The Village was also home to the Bushee Academy, a prominent school in the nineteenth century. Union Village served as a way stop for travelers on the way to Boston, Worcester and Connecticut, and it was a commercial center through the 1820s. The
Today
There are numerous Federal-style houses, the "
A 16-acre (6.5 ha) area of the village in North Smithfield, between Westwood Road and Woonsocket Hill Road, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.[1][2]
Notable people
- Emeline S. Burlingame, suffragist[3]
Images
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Peleg Arnold's 1774 milestone on old Great Road across from the Quaker Meeting House -
Union Village house built in 1812 -
historic Union Village house -
Seth Allen Tavern -
Smithfield Friends Meeting House, Parsonage & Cemetery -
See also
External links and references
- Federal Writers Project, Rhode Island: A Guide to the Smallest State (Houghton Mifflin: Boston, 1937), pg. 378
- Union Village info
- Walter Nebiker, The History of North Smithfield (Somersworth, NH: New England History Press, 1976).
- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. January 23, 2007.
- ^ "NRHP nomination for Union Village Historic District" (PDF). Rhode Island Preservation. Retrieved August 8, 2014.
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