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Buttonwood Beach is a bucolic neighborhood on the eastern limb of the Nausauket neck, located in the West Bay area of Warwick, Rhode Island. Buttonwoods is delimited by Nausauket and Apponaug to the west, Buttonwoods Cove to the north, Greenwich (aka Cowesett) Bay to the south and Oakland Beach to the east.
Roughly bounded by Brush Neck Cove, Greenwich Bay, Cooper and Promenade Aves. 41°41′09″N 71°24′49″W / 41.685833°N 71.413611°W / 41.685833; -71.413611 ( Buttonwoods Beach Historic
The Warwick Railway (reporting mark WRWK [1]) was a railroad in Rhode Island, United States. ... A trolley on the line at Buttonwoods Cove, circa 1907-1915.
Nausauket, Rhode Island is a coastal neighborhood located in Warwick, Rhode Island, in the United States. Nausauket is bounded to the south by Greenwich Bay, to the west by the bay and Apponaug Cove. Nausauket is delimited by Buttonwoods to the east and Rhode Island Route 117 to the north.
Budlong Farm is a historic farmhouse in Warwick, Rhode Island.It is a 1 + 1 ⁄ 2-story wood-frame house with a gambrel roof and a large central chimney.Its current entrance is asymmetrically placed on the north facade, although the original main entry was on the south side.
When Warwick was settled, in the seventeenth century, travel by sea was often more convenient than travel over land. Thus, Potowomut's location would have allowed relatively easy travel across Greenwich Bay to Warwick Neck or Buttonwoods. In the 1680s, the first white settlers arrived with James Greene at what came to be known as Greene's River.
Chepiwanoxet, known also in earlier sources, such as A Key into the Language of America as Chepinoxet, is a Narragansett word. It may be derived from chepi 'separated,' -wan (particle) -ok 'little' -sett 'place', meaning perhaps 'Little Separated Place,' or possibly 'Little Place at the Northeast,' compare chepewéssin 'northeast wind.' [3]
Blue Ridge Parkway through Virginia and North Carolina 35°44′10″N 82°20′37″W / 35.7360°N 82.3436°W / 35.7360; -82.3436 ( Blue Ridge Asheville vicinity