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Old Washington County Courthouse in the village of West Kingston. West Kingston is an unincorporated village and traditional county seat of Washington County, Rhode Island, United States. It is the site of the Kingston Railroad Station Amtrak station, and is a part of the Town of South Kingstown.
The former Washington County Courthouse is an historic building at 3481 Kingstown Road in South Kingstown, Rhode Island. Built in 1892, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1992 as Washington County Court House .
Towns reflecting this history include the two Kingstowns and Charlestown, as well as the villages of Kingston and West Kingston. Washington County is also known in Rhode Island as "South County", [ 7 ] [ 8 ] though some definitions of South County include outside towns, such as East Greenwich in neighboring Kent County , and exclude towns ...
Kingston was first settled in the late seventeenth century. Originally known as Little Rest, the name was changed to Kingston in 1826. It was the county seat for Washington County (formerly Kings County) from 1752 until 1894, when a new courthouse was built in nearby West Kingston.
The county seat of Washington County (before county government was abolished) is often referred to as West Kingston. In reality, West Kingston, a village of South Kingstown, does not have its own local government, but because the courthouse was located in West Kingston's zip code, it has become known as the county seat. [citation needed]
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