19th-century turnpikes in Rhode Island

March 2025 May 2020 none thumb|200px|Map of the turnpikes The following turnpikes were chartered and built in Rhode Island: West Glocester Turnpike 1794 Providence and Norwich Turnpike 1794 Rhode Island and Connecticut Turnpike 1803 Glocester Turnpike 1804 Providence and Douglass Turnpike 1805 Rhode Island Turnpike 1805 Loisquisset Turnpike 1806 Providence and Pawtucket Turnpike 1807 Farnum and Providence Turnpike 1808 Woonasquatucket Turnpike 1810 Powder Mill Turnpike 1810 Natick Turnpike 1812 Valley Falls Turnpike 1813 Foster and Scituate Turnpike 1813 Foster and Scituate Central Turnpike 1813 Coventry and Cranston Turnpike Providence and Pawcatuck Turnpike 1816 Hopkinton and Richmond Turnpike 1820 Smithfield Turnpike 1823 Pawtuxet Turnpike 1825 Mineral Spring Turnpike 1825 Pawtucket and Providence East Turnpike 1825 Fall River and Watupper Turnpike 1827 (became within Massachusetts after a border change in 1861) Stone Bridge and Fall River Turnpike 1838 Current turnpikes There is only one turnpike in Rhode Island currently: New London Turnpike References Frederic J. Wood The Turnpikes of New England [abridged] Branch Line Press 1997 1919 0-942147-05-7 http://web.bryant.edu/~history/h364proj/fall_01/tiner/ Rhode Island Turnpike Era: 1794–1830 Jason Tiner 2001 History 364 Student Projects, Fall 2001 Bryant University https://web.archive.org/web/20030730184029/http://web.bryant.edu/~history/h364proj/fall_01/tiner/ 30 July 2003 20 December 2009 dead Turnpikes Rhode Island