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Westerly is a census-designated place (CDP) in the town of Westerly in Washington County, Rhode Island, United States.The population was 17,682 at the 2000 census.The CDP includes the majority of the town of Westerly's population, with only the rural eastern and coastal southern portions of towns excluded.
The Westerly Sun is a seven-day daily newspaper published in Westerly, Rhode Island, United States, covering portions of Washington County, Rhode Island, and New London County, Connecticut. The Sun is issued mornings 7 days a week. Until 1995, it published its Sunday edition in the afternoon, and was the only such paper to do so at that time. [1]
The Rhode Island Hospital Trust was a banking institution founded in 1867 to manage the financial affairs of Rhode Island Hospital, founded in 1863. [2] Over time it grew to become a significant local commercial bank, and was acquired by Bank of Boston in 1985. In 2005, the Rhode Island School of Design purchased the building for $47 Million. [3]
The early Rhode Island inhabitants named in the Rhode Island Royal Charter, dated July 8, 1663 and signed with the royal seal by King Charles II; this charter was the basis for Rhode Island's government for nearly two centuries: [37] Author: John Clarke; Governor: Benedict Arnold; Deputy Governor: William Brenton; Assistants: William Baulston ...
The Perry Homestead Historic District encompasses a cluster of residences built as a family compound by the locally prominent Perry family in Westerly, Rhode Island. Extending mainly along the northern part of Margin Street south of downtown Westerly, the area was developed in the 1920s, and includes five family residences, a caretaker's house ...
All of those functions in Rhode Island are now carried out either by the state government, or by the cities and towns of Rhode Island. Newport County is included in the Providence-Warwick, RI-MA Metropolitan Statistical Area, which is in turn constitutes a portion of the greater Boston-Worcester-Providence, MA-RI-NH-CT Combined Statistical Area.