Wakefield, Rhode Island Wakefield, Rhode Island is positioned in Rhode Island Wakefield, Rhode Island to Columbia St., South Kingstown, Rhode Island Wakefield is a village in the town of South Kingstown, Rhode Island, and the commercial center of the town.
Enumeration as a component of the census-designated place identified as Wakefield-Peacedale, Rhode Island.
West Kingston, another South Kingstown village, was the traditional governmental center of county of Washington County.
The Wakefield village center along Main Street (old Boston Post Road) between Belmont Avenue and Columbia Street was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996 as Wakefield Historic District.
The precinct includes 53 properties over an region of 400 acres (1.6 km2) and also includes Kenyon's Department Store, which is separately listed on the National Register.
The small-town textile foundry continued to operate and grew through the 19th century, but in the mid-century, as close-by Peace Dale interval as a manufacturing center and factories were established in other water power sites in the area, Wakefield became the commercial center of South Kingstown.
Wakefield's first hospital was started in a home in 1919, and a new South County Hospital building was assembled in 1925 on a 6-acre (2.4 ha) tract that formerly had been the town farm. Buildings in Wakefield that are identified as contributing properties in the historic precinct include: National Register of Historic Places listings in Washington County, Rhode Island a b c d e Historic and Architectural Resources of South Kingstown, Rhode Island: A Preliminary Report, Rhode Island Historical Preservation Commission, 1984 "State of Rhode Island Historic Property Search".
State of Rhode Island, Historical Preservation & Heritage Commission.
"State of Rhode Island Historic Property Search Bell Block".
State of Rhode Island, Historical Preservation & Heritage Commission.
Town of South Kingstown, Rhode Island Wakefield, Rhode Island at DMOZ Municipalities and communities of Washington County, Rhode Island, United States
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Villages in Washington County, Rhode Island - Queen Anne architecture in Rhode Island - Historic districts in Washington County, Rhode Island - South Kingstown, Rhode Island - Providence urbane region - Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Rhode Island - National Register of Historic Places in Washington County, Rhode Island
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