Wakefield-Peacedale, Rhode Island

Washington County

44-73130

Wakefield Peacedale is a census -designated place (CDP ) in South Kingstown in Washington County, Rhode Iceland, United States.

Population

Wakefield Peacedale 2000 8.468 inhabitants counted in the census. Slightly more than 90 % of the population were white, about 3% of American Indians and almost 2% African- American and 1.2 % Asian. The remainder was divided between different ethnic groups. The per capita income was 24 191 U.S. dollars; 5.4% of the population lived below the poverty line.

History

Peace Dale (also Peacedale ) was founded in 1800 by industrialist Rowland Hazard ( 1763-1835 ) of South Kingstown, who named the settlement after his wife Mary Peace. On Hazard the spread of carding machines is expected to fall in Rhode Iceland, which he used for the first time in the wool industry in 1805, and thus its Narragansett Cotton Manufacturing Company reasoned that under different names remained in family ownership until 1918. 1814 Hazard used first narrow in Rhode Iceland Kraftwebstühle - the company boasted later to have used this for the first time ever successfully - and united all the processes involved in the wool industry under one roof.

The nearby village of Wakefield was originally McCoon 's Mill after a tobacco mill installed there. 1820 Hazard named the town after the English town of Wakefield, as he had friends there.

The center of Wakefield is listed since 1996 under the number 87,000,493 as Wakefield Historic District on the National Register of Historic Places.