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Exploring the Blackstone River Valley

Artifacts from the Pettingell-Mason House.  Photo by Ellen  Kawadler, Blackstone Heritage Corridor Photography Ambassador.
Artifacts from the Pettingell-Mason House. Photo by Ellen Kawadler, Blackstone Heritage Corridor Photography Ambassador.

Includes Chepachet, Harmony and West Glocester

Settled in 1639, Incorporated in 1731

  • The second elephant to arrive in the United States, Betty, the Learned Elephant, was murdered during a parade in Chepachet in 1826
  • Home to the Ancients and Horribles Parade, occurring every Independence Day since 1926
  • From 1841 to 1842 Thomas Wilson Dorr led the Dorr Rebellion in an attempt to change the State’s electoral rules in favor of the less fortunate
  • Durfee Hill in Glocester is 804 feet, making it the second highest point in Rhode Island
  • Glocester voted to changed the spelling of the town from Gloucester to Glocester in order to avoid confusion with the town of Gloucester, MA

Resource Links

Chepachet Walking Tour

Glocester Town Hall

Rhode Island Historical Cemetery Commission

Glocester Historical Society

Glocester Library

Northern Rhode Island Chamber of Commerce

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