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Charlestown is named after King Charles II, and was incorporated in 1738. The area was formerly part of the town of Westerly. It was in turn divided and the part north of the Pawcatuck River became the town of Richmond in 1747.
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1819 - Charlestown
Charlestown is a post township, situated 40 miles southwest from Providence; bounded on the north by Charles river, which separates it from Richmond, ... Read MORE...
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1854 - Charlestown
Charlestown, a post-township of Washing ton cc. Rhode Island, on the Stonington and Providence railroad, 15 miles S. W. of Newport. Population 694.
A New and Complete Gazetteer of the United States: Giving a Full and Comprehensive Review of the Present Condition, Industry, and Resources of the American Confederacy ... Thomas Baldwin (of Philadelphia.) Joseph Thomas January 1, 1854 Philadelphia : Lippincott, Grambo & Company 1854.
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1859
CHARLESTOWN,, a township in Washington, co., Rhode Island, 45 m. SSW of Providence, watered by Charles river, and a branch of the Pawcatuck, Pop. 923.
A Gazetteer of the World: Or, Dictionary of Geographical Knowledge, Publisher A. Fullarton, 1859
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1895 - Charlestown
Charlestown, a post-township of Washington co., R.I., is bounded on the S. by the Atlantic Ocean, and intersected by the Stonington & Providence... Read MORE...
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1916
Charlestown, a post-township (town) of Washington co., R.I., is bounded on the S. by the Atlantic Ocean. Pop. in 1900, 975, in part Narragansett... Read MORE...
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