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www.lincolnri.gov: Lincoln is a town in Providence County, Rhode Island, United States. The population was 22,529 at the 2020 census.
The Great Road Historic District is a historic district in Lincoln, Rhode Island, commemorating a portion of Rhode Island's oldest highway, dating back to 1683.Great Road served as the main connection between Providence, Hartford and Worcester during colonial times.
May 6, 1971 (From Steeple and Promenade Sts. in Providence to the Massachusetts border in North Smithfield: Lincoln, Cumberland, Woonsocket, and North Smithfield: Initial listing extended from Providence, through Pawtucket, and as far north as Lincoln; a 1991 expansion (#91001536) extended it to the state line; the canal itself extended into Worcester County, Massachusetts, where it is the ...
The area today known as Washington County was part of the ancestral lands of the Narragansett Indian Tribe. [6] During the second half of the 17th Century, about a dozen English colonists from Newport and Massachusetts colonies moved to the area to establish farms; the larger of these were known as "Narragansett Planters."
The Eleazer Arnold House is a historic house built for Eleazer Arnold in about 1693, and located in the Great Road Historic District at Lincoln, Rhode Island.It is now a National Historic Landmark owned by Historic New England, and open to the public on weekends.
The area was settled as a farming community in the 17th century. The historic Eleazer Arnold House (built 1693) is located near the village. The Saylesville Meeting House (built 1704) is one of the oldest surviving Quaker (Society of Friends) meeting houses in New England and one of the oldest church buildings in Rhode Island.
The Whipple–Cullen House and Barn is an historic farmstead on Old River Road in Lincoln, Rhode Island.The main house is a 2 + 1 ⁄ 2-story wood-frame structure, five bays wide, with a large central chimney and a gable roof.
Lime Rock (Limerock) is a village and historic district in Lincoln, Providence County, Rhode Island, United States, near Rhode Island Route 146.The village was named after the limestone quarries in the area, which started in the 17th century, and continue to the present where Conklin Limestone Company now operates.