West Warwick, Rhode Island, USA (Arctic) (Natick) (Phenix) (Crompton)
1930 - A NATURAL CHANGE

The proposal of citizens of the district that the present boundary between Warwick and West Warwick be moved eastward to follow the new Bald Hill road would throw into the town of West Warwick a considerable area which is now part of Warwick.

The area involved, however, belongs naturally in the former town, as it consists of a spearhead of territory which projects into West Warwick and is surrounded on three sides by it. Furthermore, residents of the district ar so far removed from the more populous part of Warwick that, as they point out, they have little in common with that community, while they have a great deal in common with West Warwick.

They would have, they believe, more convenient school facilities if they ware a part of the latter, and their other municipal needs would receive greater attention.

As the town line is now fixed, part of the village of Centreville is in West Warwick and part of it is in Warwick. The same thing is true of Natick and Westcott. The proposed change in the boundary would throw the whole of all three villages into West Warwick. Such action would add about 20 per cent to the area of the latter community and would increase its population somewhat.

While neither town has yet gone on record for or against the proposal, it is planned to have a bill presented to the Legislature carrying out the change. Both communities, it would seem, should welcom the idea. It would give to West Warwick a section which is now a part of it in ever respect except politically. It would relieve Warwick, which now spreads over an unusually large area, a portion of its western territory and permit it to a larger extent to concentrate its expenditures in the easter portion of town, which has grown most rapidly and which is greatly in need of municipal improvements.


The Evening Bulletin
Providence, Rhode Island
February 1, 1930

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