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Place Name
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Warwick
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Place Status (Type)
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city
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Population
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85,427 (1990)
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Location
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Kent County, Rhode Island (RI), United States, North America
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Latitude
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41°42'N
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Longitude
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71°25'W
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Warwick
, city (1990 pop. 85,427), Kent co., central R.I., at
the head of Narragansett Bay; 41°42'N 71°25'W. Its now closed
textile industry dated from 1794. Other manufactures include machinery,
metals, pipes and tubing, and silverware. The town includes the
neighborhoods of Apponaug, on Greenwich Bay; Hillsgrove, site of the T.
F. Green state airport; Warwick; and former resort villages. Warwick
village was nearly destroyed (1676) in King Philip's War. Gaspee
Point, S of Pawtuxet, was the scene of the burning of the Br. revenue
cutter Gaspee in 1772; annual “Gaspee Days” commemorate the event.
Warwick has the Community Col. of R.I. and a very large music arena.
Rocky Point is one of the NE's oldest amusement parks. Nathanael
Greene was b. here. Settled by Samuel Gorton 1642, inc. as a city
1931.
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