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- ahead, of- their timet’ They- did.this through- the constructionof’’
‘pleasant, affordable, individualized- housinq and by encouraging:
home-ownership witffin,the village by mill employees. - They.’--’
promoted education locally, not only by buildinq.schools but also’
by offering free kindergarten schooling long before it becaRe
available through the public school system. They built and
endowed libraries and recreation halls, and a cfrarch; they
supported a- lyceurrr’and-’ a-choral group. If the-Hazards are’ to -be
faulted, it might be on the basis that they became- too- involved
in the lives of companyemployees and their families. The.
Hazards sought perfection of community-life and pursued
through the vehicle of paternalism. - There is no Rhode-Island.
community where this’ system of -benevolent control-- is better -
exen-iplified. - - - - - -
The Hazards’ identification with their peaceful village was
seemingly without limit. Shortly after the deatft of Rowland’
Hazard II. in 1898, his-family erected to his memory a tablet in -
the peace Dale Congregational Church which he had designed and
built. The tablet’s inscription reads impart,- "He loved this
people with a father’s love and-did with his might what his hands
found to do for the good of his fellow men and the glory of God."
it is a fitting epitaph for the whole of what the- Hazard family
strove to achieve in Peace Dale.
- Peace Dale’s period of significance extends from c. i790
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when the Hazard Homestead off Kingstown Road was constructed to
1937 when- the last contributing building was constructed.
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