West Warwick, Rhode Island

Kent County

44-78440

West Warwick is a town in Kent County, Rhode Iceland, United States.

Geography

The city is located on the southwestern edge of the Providence Metropolitan Area, a metropolitan area on the Atlantic Coast with 1.5 million inhabitants around Providence, about 40 km south-west of Boston and 200 miles north-east of New York. The city is well connected to the road, next to some State Routes in and around the metropolitan area Interstate 95 runs just east around it.

The city is located less than five kilometers west of Narragansett Bay on the west side of the Pawtucket River, across from Warwick on the other side of the river. Because of the characteristics of administrative divisions of New England following villages are located in the city of West Warwick:

  • Arctic
  • Centerville
  • Clyde
  • Crompton
  • Jericho
  • Lippitt
  • Natick
  • Phenix
  • River Point
  • Wescott

Population

At the 2000 census, 29,581 residents were counted. Of these, almost 94 % white to slightly more than 1 % were represented African- Americans and Asians. The remainder was divided between several ethnic groups. The per capita income was 20,250 U.S. dollars, 11.2 % of the population lived below the poverty line.

History

The area was settled before colonization by Europeans from the Indian tribe of Narragansett. 1642 bought a group of Samuel Gorton in the so-called Shawomet Purchase an area in southern Rhode Iceland from the Narragansett chief Miantonomi. 1647 organized the settlers an administration under the name of Warwick. West Warwick was founded in 1913 as an independent city, it is the youngest city in the state.

Before 1913 the city was the industrial center of the larger town of Warwick. Like many other cities and towns in Rhode Iceland benefited the Settlers of the hydropower plenty available, so that even in the area of ​​Warwick a very early age was able to develop an industry of wool and textile production and iron processing of mainly along the banks Pawtucket River concentrated. After the decline of the textile industry in West Warwick was struggling with economic difficulties.

On February 20, 2003 100 people were killed in a fire at a nightclub killed. (→ catastrophic fire at the nightclub The Station )

Sons and daughters of the town

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