Rhode Island's Hidden History

Rhode Island's Hidden History Exploring the history of West Warwick and Coventry Rhode Island and the people who made that history.

A live view of the Interlaken bridge use to take the cloth to the dye house on the other side of the Pawtuxet River.
07/29/2025

A live view of the Interlaken bridge use to take the cloth to the dye house on the other side of the Pawtuxet River.

07/29/2025

Roger Williams and Rhode Island

07/28/2025

Possible remains of a old cast-iron bleachery tank or dye tank from the old Arkwright Mill.

Interlaken Mill Bridge This 100 ft long  single span bridge leventicular truss bridge was built by the Berlin Iron Works...
07/28/2025

Interlaken Mill Bridge
This 100 ft long single span bridge leventicular truss bridge was built by the Berlin Iron Works co. of East Berlin Connecticut . It connected the dye house and bleachery of the Interlaken company on the North side of the Pawtuxet River with the former Arkwright Mills on the.south bank. The leventicular or parabolic truss bridge was designed by William O. Douglas of New York. The Berlin company had a virtual monopoly on this type of bridge. This is the only leventicular truss bridge known to survive in Rhode Island.

1899 Lithograph of the Mill Village of Arkwright in Coventry Rhode Island's Hidden History
07/26/2025

1899 Lithograph of the Mill Village of Arkwright in Coventry Rhode Island's Hidden History

Phenix Square History Main Street, Phenix 1897 at left Bandstand, Archie Begin's harness shop and Morton's Photo Studio ...
07/19/2025

Phenix Square History

Main Street, Phenix 1897 at left Bandstand, Archie Begin's harness shop and Morton's Photo Studio upstairs, Conley's Wholesale Liquors, Duffy Block, "Cad" Cole's Stable, Gleaner building, top was burned off later, now 1935, St. John's Hall, Brigg's Hotel. At right, Capron building now occupied (1935) by Phenix Electric Co., and tenement upstairs.

07/18/2025

Did you know that Maple Valley Road in Coventry was actually the village of Potterville and Whaley Hollow in the 1700s.

07/16/2025

The History of Route 14.

07/16/2025
Near this spot lived Gabriel Bernon , a Huguenot refugee born in Laorochelle, France April 6, 1644. Died in Providence, ...
07/15/2025

Near this spot lived Gabriel Bernon , a Huguenot refugee born in Laorochelle, France
April 6, 1644. Died in Providence, February 1,1736.
MERCHANT, COLONIZER, CHURCMAN

Roger Williams created a Livable Experiment in Rhode Island.
07/12/2025

Roger Williams created a Livable Experiment in Rhode Island.

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Coventry, RI

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