The township, shaped like an inverted triangle set on a square, was separated
from Warwick and incorporated in 1913 because of the distance between the thick cluster of villages along the Pawtuxet River and the shore villages holding most of the population of the present Warwick. [1]
Workers of the Federal Writers' Program of the Works Progress Administration for the State of Rhode Island, Rhode Island: A Guide to the Smallest State, American Guide Series, Riverside Press, Cambridge, Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1937.