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Burrillville
Rhode Island
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Round Top Fishing Area


Includes the villages of Bridgeton, Glendale, Harrisville, Mapleville, Nasonville, Oakland, Pascoag and Wallum Lake
Settled approximately 1662, Incorporated in 1806
- One of Burrillville’s earliest settlers was John Smith
- Branch River forms in Oakland from the merging of the Clear River and Chepachet River
- Pascoag is Burrillville’s main village
- Famous Rhode Island author H.P. Lovecraft set a part of his short story “The Horror at Red Hook” (1925) in Pascoag
- Burrillville was originally a part of Glocester, RI
- Every day at 5 p.m. the town whistle goes off from the Oakland-Mapleville Fire Department