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Our Foster, RI real estate website provides a wealth of information for home buyers and home sellers. Below, you will find information on the history and culture of Foster as well as links to more detailed information such as demographics and schools. You may view a virtual tour, search homes for sale, and access information on different types of properties such as condos, farms, foreclosures, and vacation homes. This website will give you everything you need to buy or sell a home in Foster, RI.
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Foster RI Community Profile & History
Foster, Rhode Island is located within the Narragansett Bay & Thames River Watersheds. First settled by British colonists in the 1600s, the town was a part of Scituate until 1781, when it was incorporated separately. The town's historic man-made environment dates primarily from the mid-18th to the mid-19th Century; within that time frame, many houses and farms date to the years between 1760 and 1820. The Town House, built in 1796 and still used today, is the oldest government meeting house of its kind in the United States.
The villages which make up the present-day community grew up around the flourishing local industries. Hopkins Mills was the first to develop in the early 1700's. Foster Center, the present seat of government, developed later in the 18th Century, and it was here that the first town meeting was held in 1781. The village of Clayville took form in the early 19th Century, as did Moosup Valley and Mount Vernon.
The town is rich in historic resources - houses, farmsteads, stone walls, roads, and mill ruins - and in the natural beauty of its setting - brooks, waterfalls, woods, swamps, and the plant and animal life they shelter. The highest point in Rhode Island, Jerimoth Hill, 812 feet above sea level, is located in northwest Foster. The community remains sparsely settled, with almost four-fifths of the town's 52.2 square miles of land being hilly, and 88.2 percent of the land being forested.
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