19th-century turnpikes in Rhode Island
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The following turnpikes were chartered and built in Rhode Island:
- West Glocester Turnpike 1794
- Providence and Norwich Turnpike 1794
- Rhode Island and Connecticut Turnpike 1803
- Glocester Turnpike 1804
- Providence and Douglass Turnpike 1805
- Rhode Island Turnpike 1805
- Loisquisset Turnpike 1806
- Providence and Pawtucket Turnpike 1807
- Farnum and Providence Turnpike 1808
- Woonasquatucket Turnpike 1810
- Powder Mill Turnpike 1810
- Natick Turnpike 1812
- Valley Falls Turnpike 1813
- Foster and Scituate Turnpike 1813
- Foster and Scituate Central Turnpike 1813
- Coventry and Cranston Turnpike
- Providence and Pawcatuck Turnpike 1816
- Hopkinton and Richmond Turnpike 1820
- Smithfield Turnpike 1823
- Pawtuxet Turnpike 1825
- Mineral Spring Turnpike 1825
- Pawtucket and Providence East Turnpike 1825
- Fall River and Watupper Turnpike 1827 (became within Massachusetts after a border change in 1861)
- Stone Bridge and Fall River Turnpike 1838
Current turnpikes
There is only one turnpike in Rhode Island currently:
References
- {{cite book|author=Frederic J. Wood|title=The Turnpikes of New England [abridged]|publisher=Branch Line Press|year=1997 |origyear=1919|isbn=0-942147-05-7}}
- {{cite web
|url=http://web.bryant.edu/~history/h364proj/fall_01/tiner/
|title=Rhode Island Turnpike Era: 1794–1830
|author=Jason Tiner
|year=2001
|work=History 364 Student Projects, Fall 2001
|publisher=Bryant University
|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20030730184029/http://web.bryant.edu/~history/h364proj/fall_01/tiner/
|archivedate=30 July 2003
|accessdate=20 December 2009
|url-status=dead
}}