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Westerly is a census-designated place (CDP) in the town of Westerly in Washington County, Rhode Island, United States. The population was 17,682 at the 2000 census . The CDP includes the majority of the town of Westerly's population, with only the rural eastern and coastal southern portions of towns excluded.
The Westerly Downtown Historic District is a historic district encompassing most of the commercial and civic district of Westerly, Rhode Island, United States.It extends from Broad and Union Streets eastward along High Street, and north along Canal Street to Railroad Avenue, where it extends to include the historic railroad station.
The road crosses through some small communities in Westerly, returning to a parallel with the Northeast Corridor. Entering a small commercial center in the town of Westerly, Route 91 continues northeast as Bradford Road and intersects with Route 216. Route 91 and Route 216 proceed north along a concurrency, crossing over the Northeast Corridor
US 1 enters Rhode Island via a small bridge from Pawcatuck, Connecticut, to downtown Westerly.US 1 winds through downtown Westerly, passing two shopping plazas (the Granite Street Shopping Center and the Franklin Shopping Plaza) prior to a junction with Route 78, the two-lane highway designed to bypass downtown.
Westerly station is a passenger rail station on the Northeast Corridor located just north of downtown Westerly, Rhode Island. It is served by Amtrak 's Northeast Regional . Amtrak's Acela also passes by this station, but does not stop.
Various incarnations of a high school have been serving students in Westerly since shortly after the American Civil War. [2] Three buildings in the first century (1870–1960) The first Westerly High School was built at 32 Elm Street in 1870. It cost $10,000 to build. After about 30 years, the building was too small to support the town's ...
Watch Hill sits at the most southwestern point of Rhode Island on a stubby peninsula jutting into Block Island Sound. [6] It includes a smaller peninsula known as Napatree Point, a 1.5-mile (2.4 km)-long sandy spit that extends west from the Watch Hill business district, and Sandy Point, which was once attached to Napatree Point.
Route 78, also known as the Westerly Bypass, is a two-lane divided freeway between Stonington, Connecticut, to Westerly, Rhode Island. The route is about 4.6 miles (7.4 km) long and begins at Connecticut Route 2 in Stonington, crossing into Rhode Island at the Pawcatuck River, where it continues to U.S. Route 1 in Westerly. The route was ...