If you drive to the most southwestern part of Rhode Island, you will
enter a extraordinary New England community, Watch Hill. In the summer,
people from around the world congregate there to shop the little stores
on Bay Street, Larkin Square and Fort Road, have an ice cream at St.
Claire's Annex, see children riding the oldest flying horse carousel
in the US, visit a lighthouse that has been shining on Block Island
Sound for almost 200 years, and walk down to Napatree Point where
you'll find the remnants of a fort that dates back to the Spanish
American War. Anything else? Oh, yeah - miles of pristine beaches.
Surrounding the village are many early turn of century homes and cottages
that have great water views of Little Narragansett Bay or the Atlantic
Ocean. If you ever visited Watch Hill village, the numerous boats
in the bay, and the beautiful Victorian homes, you would understand
how the National Register of Historic Places named Watch Hill a “Historical
District” in 1985. |