The Peace Dale mills and the Hazard family’s woolen business
For more than a century, the Hazard family’s woolen mills shaped the village of Peace Dale in South Kingstown.
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Edward Everett Hale and his summers in Matunuck
The author of “The Man Without a Country” spent summers for decades in Matunuck, where he wrote and hosted guests.
Westerly granite, the stone that built Civil War monuments
Westerly’s fine-grained granite was prized for statues and monuments in the 1800s. The quarries employed hundreds of stonecutters.