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Mar. 14, 2024, 4:23 AM ET (MSN)
Warwick holds 58th Annual Gaspee Days Parade

Warwick, city, Kent county, east-central Rhode Island, U.S., lying on the western shore of Narragansett Bay. It is basically a southern residential suburb of Providence comprising a group of about 20 scattered villages united administratively. The first European settlement on the site was made at Shawomet (1642) by Samuel Gorton. Later the colony was named for Robert Rich, 2nd earl of Warwick, who supported Gorton’s quest to gain protection of a royal charter against the Massachusetts Bay colony. Town (township) government was organized in 1647. After the widespread destruction caused by King Philip’s (Indian) War (1675–76), the township was rebuilt, ...(100 of 218 words)