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South Kingstown
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South Kingstown

Town in southern Rhode Island, 55 km/34 mi south of Providence and west of Point Judith, on Block Island Sound; population (1990) 24,600. The economy centres around the University of Rhode Island (1892) at Kingston; there is also summer tourism along the shore, and some diversified light manufacturing.

The Narragansett American Indians suffered their critical defeat here against colonists in the Narragansett Fort Fight of December 1675, at the Great Swamp. In 1723 the district, called Kings Towne or Kings Province, was divided into North Kingstown and South Kingstown. Today South Kingstown contains a number of villages, including Kingston, West Kingston (the county capital), Peacedale, and Wakefield.



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