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NPS Form iOgOOi LiP- 10-31-84<br />
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United States Department of the Interior - - ‘-r<br />
<strong>National</strong> <strong>Park</strong> <strong>Service</strong> - --<br />
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<strong>National</strong> Register of HistOric Places -<br />
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Inventory_Nomination Form - -<br />
-Continuation sheet52 - Item number 8 Page 8 -<br />
- ahead, of- their timet’ They- did.this through- the constructionof’’<br />
‘pleasant, affordable, individualized- housinq and by encouraging:<br />
home-ownership witffin,the village by mill employees. - They.’--’<br />
promoted education locally, not only by buildinq.schools but also’<br />
by offering free kindergarten schooling long before it becaRe<br />
available through the public school system. They built and<br />
endowed libraries and recreation halls, and a cfrarch; they<br />
supported a- lyceurrr’and-’ a-choral group. If the-Hazards are’ to -be<br />
faulted, it might be on the basis that they became- too- involved<br />
in the lives of companyemployees and their families. The.<br />
Hazards sought perfection of community-life and pursued<br />
through the vehicle of paternalism. - There is no <strong>Rhode</strong>-<strong>Island</strong>.<br />
community where this’ system of -benevolent control-- is better -<br />
exen-iplified. - - - - - -<br />
The Hazards’ identification with their peaceful village was<br />
seemingly without limit. Shortly after the deatft of Rowland’<br />
Hazard II. in 1898, his-family erected to his memory a tablet in -<br />
the peace Dale Congregational Church which he had designed and<br />
built. The tablet’s inscription reads impart,- "He loved this<br />
people with a father’s love and-did with his might what his hands<br />
found to do for the good of his fellow men and the glory of God."<br />
it is a fitting epitaph for the whole of what the- Hazard family<br />
strove to achieve in Peace Dale.<br />
- Peace Dale’s period of significance extends from c. i790<br />
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when the Hazard Homestead off Kingstown Road was constructed to<br />
1937 when- the last contributing building was constructed.<br />
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