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United States Geography in the Early Republic - RHODE ISLAND

Rhode Island

Towns and Cities of Rhode Island

Arcadia

Arctic

Ashton

Barrington

Block Island

Bradford

Bridgeton

Bristol

Central Falls

Charleston

Chepachet

Coventry

Cranston

East Greenwich

E. Providence

Exeter

Farmingdale

Foster

Greenville

Harrisville

Hopkinton

Howard

Kingston

Middletown

Narragansett

Natic

Newport

North Scituate

Oakland Beach

Pawtucket

Portsmouth

Providence

Riverside

Rumford

Saylesville

Shawomet

Slatersville

Tiverton

Valley Falls

Wakefield

Warren

Warwick

Washington

West Barrington

Westerly

Wickford

Woonsocket

Counties of Rhode Island

Bristol

Comprised mostly of a finger of land bordering Bristol County, MA. Contains Bristol, the county seat, Barrington, and Warren. Mount Hope Bay borders it on its east.

Kent

Newport

Home of Ezra Stiles, where he pastored the Second Congregational Church before becoming president of Yale.

Providence

Capitol of RI, lying at the head of Narragansett Bay. After being an agricultural, and then a shipbuilding center, it became, by the 1830s, an important manufacturing center, especially for textiles.

Home of Brown University.

Washington

Rivers, Lakes, etc. of Rhode Island

Aquidneck Island

Middle of Newport County; the largest island in Narragansett Bay; contains city of Newport.

Mount Hope Bay

Has Bristol County on its west, and part of Newport County (Tiverton and N. Tiverton) on its east. Empties into Narragansett Bay.

Narragansett Bay

Cuts more than halfway up the state, separating the main body of RI from the irregular five-mile strip attached to the western border of Bristol County, MA.