West Warwick, Rhode Island, USA (Arctic) (Natick) (Phenix) (Crompton)
1913 - West Warwick is a New Town Now

Warwick, R. I., Nov. 4 - Today's election added a new town to Rhode Island. The town of West Warwick, authorized to separate from the town of Warwick by the last Legislature, had its first election today. The Democrats won and will be sworn into office tomorrow morning.

West Warwick brings the number of towns in Rhode Island to thirty-three and adds one senator to the Assembly. Albric A. Archambault, a Democrat, was elected to that office. The population of West Warwick is 17,000 as compared with 10,000 for that of the town of Warwick.

Date: November 05, 1913
Location: Massachusetts
Paper: Boston Journal

NOTE: West Warwick split with Warwick because of political reasons. Eastern Warwick was mainly a farm area. Western Warwick was a heavily populated mill area. Western Warwick was democrat and the eastern part of town was republican. The people in eastern Warwick were often out voted and were tired of losing. They wanted to split with the western part of town because the voting usually benefited the western side.

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