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United States Department of the Interior -
National Park Service -
National Register of Historic Places
Inventory-Nomination Form - -
Continuation sheet 54 Item number 10
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The - boundary of the - Peace Dale Historic District is
represented-on the accompanying map, titled "National Register
Historic District, Map of Peace Dale village," drawn at a scale
of 1" 400’. The borders of the Peace Dale National Register
Historic District are based on the evidence of historic maps and
a careful analysis of existing conditions. - Fisk Flats has not
been included. On the north, contiguous portions of Rocky Brook
and a series of eighteenth- - and early nineteenth-century
dwellings, spotted along North Road historically separate from
Peace Dale’s evolution have-been omitted, while the Peace Dale
School map #1 and a group of mill houses on Kersey Road have
been included. The - district boundary includes extant Hazard
estates on the south shore of Saugatucket Pond #15 and #17 but
excludes the sites of two demolished Hazard houses, including
property along Kingstown Road occupied by residential
subdivisions developed after 1948. The boundary includes
Kingstown Road dwellings south of the village center as far as
School Street, where the north end of Wakefield-oriented
development begins, on the east it encompasses the villagerelated
section of Broad Rock Road and the most important
surviving Hazard family house, the Acorns #71. The border
skirts two groups of late twentieth-century houses off the
eastern end of Church Street on Rose Circle and Steven Circle.
School Street constitutes the district’s south line for the
reason noted above. On the west, the boundary follows the
Saugatucket River in order to include Peace Dale-oriented
buildings on Columbia Street, then follows Church Street westwardas
far as the former Peace Dale Congregational Church parsonage
#88, turning north again and following the back lot lines of
houses lining Railroad Street, omitting undeveloped property to
the west. At Railroad Street and Kingstown Road the boundary
includes the historic Railroad Street Bridge #78, then jogs
east and north again, omitting the vacant Narragansett Pier
Railroad right-of-way and- several non-historic commercial
buildings, continuing
Peace Dale School #1.
to the district’s northwest corner
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