Woods Corner

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

Places of Interest

Highlights include New England Wireless and Steam Museum.

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. New England Wireless and Steam Museum is situated 1½ miles east of Woods Corner.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Exeter and Spring Lake.

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.

Spring Lake

Neighborhood

Spring Lake is a village in the town of Coventry, Rhode Island. The Johnson family were early owners of the land in the area and, in 1818, sold the property to Ezra Ramsdell to build a warp thread mill along the Mishnock River. Spring Lake is situated 4 miles northwest of Woods Corner.

Crompton

Village

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Crompton is a community in West Warwick, Rhode Island, United States. It is named after Samuel Crompton, inventor of the spinning mule. The Crompton Mill was set up in 1807, on the east bank of the Pawtuxet River, and is thought to be the first stone mill built in Rhode Island. Crompton is situated 4½ miles north of Woods Corner.

Woods Corner

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

41.62381° or 41° 37′ 26″ north

Longitude

-71.54393° or 71° 32′ 38″ west

Elevation

289 feet (88 metres)

Open location code

87HCJFF4+GC

OpenStreetMap ID

node 201131104

OpenStreetMap feature

place=neighbourhood

GeoNames ID

5225793

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