Cooks Corner

Cooks Corner is a neighborhood in Town of East Greenwich, Kent County, Rhode Island. Cooks Corner is situated nearby to the neighborhood Hamiltons Corner, as well as near Wightmans Corner.

Places of Interest

Highlights include New England Wireless and Steam Museum and Six Principle Baptist Church.

New England Wireless and Steam Museum

Museum

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The New England Wireless and Steam Museum is an electrical and mechanical engineering museum at 1300 Frenchtown Road in East Greenwich, Rhode Island, with working steam engines and an early wireless station and technology archives.

Six Principle Baptist Church

Church

Photo: Swampyank, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Stony Lane Six Principle Baptist Church, also known as the Old Baptist Meeting House, is a historic church in North Kingstown, Rhode Island. As of 2009 it was one of the last surviving historical congregations of the Six Principle Baptist denomination and one of the oldest churches in the United States. Six Principle Baptist Church is situated 2 miles southeast of Cooks Corner.

Wickford Junction station

Railway station

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Wickford Junction station is a commuter rail station located in North Kingstown, Rhode Island, United States. It is the southern terminus of the MBTA Commuter Rail Providence/Stoughton Line and serves as a park and ride location for commuters to Providence and Boston. Wickford Junction station is situated 2 miles southeast of Cooks Corner.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Exeter and Lafayette.

Exeter

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Exeter is a small, spread-out town in southwestern Rhode Island. Exeter is noted by folklorists as the site of one of the best documented examples of vampire exhumation: the Mercy Brown Vampire Incident of 1892.

Lafayette

Neighborhood

Photo: Marcbela, Public domain.

Lafayette Village is a historic district extending along Ten Rod Road in North Kingstown, Rhode Island. It encompasses a linear rural and industrial village, running from the Wickford Junction railroad crossing in the west to Angel Avenue in the east, and includes a number of residential properties on adjacent side streets. Lafayette is situated 3½ miles southeast of Cooks Corner.

Wickford

Photo: Swampyank, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Wickford is a small village and seaport in North Kingstown that seems to keep its historical charm despite being a tourist attraction. The tides lap its grounded shores and echo a story of its distinguished past.

Cooks Corner

Type: Neighborhood
Also known as: “Cook’s Corner”
Category: locality
Location: Town of East Greenwich, Kent County, Rhode Island, New England, United States, North America
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Latitude

41.60444° or 41° 36′ 16″ north

Longitude

-71.52142° or 71° 31′ 17″ west

Elevation

312 feet (95 metres)

Open location code

87HCJF3H+QC

OpenStreetMap ID

node 201129624

OpenStreetMap feature

place=neighbourhood

GeoNames ID

5221595

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