Canonchet, Rhode Island: Difference between revisions

{{Short description|Village in Hopkinton, Rhode Island, U.S.}}

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'''Canonchet''' ({{Respell|cuh|NON|chet}}<ref>{{Cite web |last=Farzan |first=Antonia Noori |title=Rhode Island pronunciation guide: 35 names that visitors and even some locals get wrong |url=https://www.providencejournal.com/story/lifestyle/2024/07/02/how-do-you-pronounce-quonochontaug-heres-how-to-say-ris-trickiest-names-sachuest-pawtucket-pascoag/73789429007/ |access-date=2024-07-04 |website=The Providence Journal |language=en-US}}</ref>) is a small village in the town of [[Hopkinton, Rhode Island|Hopkinton]] in the [[U.S. state]] of [[Rhode Island]].<ref name="history1">Cole, J.R. [https://archive.org/details/cu31924028840011/page/n1061/mode/2up?q=Canonchet History of Washington and Kent counties, Rhode Island], p. 756 (1889)</ref><ref name="hopkinton">House, Kirk W. [https://books.google.com/books?id=mZtUZ3-YNMgC&q=canonchet%20hopkinton Hopkinton], p. 61 (2004)</ref><ref name="mystery">[http://smallstatebighistory.com/a-mystery-at-canonchet-who-built-the-stone-piles-in-hopkinton-and-why/ A Mystery at Canonceht], ''Small State Big History'', Retrieved May 24, 2023</ref><ref name="mention">(January 19, 2018). [https://www.providencejournal.com/story/business/real-estate/2018/01/19/neighborhood-of-week-hope-valley-mills-have-gone-but-village-remains/13750705007/ Mills have gone, but the village remains], ''[[Providence Journal]]'' ("West is Canonchet, a village of Hopkinton")</ref>

The hamlet developed as a mill village in the nineteenth century, generally centered on a mile segment of Canonchet Road.<ref name="historic">[https://preservation.ri.gov/sites/g/files/xkgbur406/files/pdfs_zips_downloads/survey_pdfs/hopkinton.pdf Hopkinton Preliminary Report], Rhode Island Historic Preservation Commission (1976)</ref> It was previously called Asheville (or Ashville).<ref name="ash1">[https://books.google.com/books?id=jtpToXXsbioC&dq=canonchet+asheville&pg=PA358 Rhode Island, A Guide to the Smallest State], p. 358 (1937)</ref> The "Canonchet Village Historic District" includes the main stretch of the community on Canonchet Road.<ref name="district">[https://www.hopkintonri.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/HopkintonPlanCleanDraft_032217.pdf Town of Hopkinton, 2017 Comprehensive Plan], p. 145 (2017)</ref><ref name="rihistory">[https://www.ri.gov/preservation/search/search.php?town=&streetname=&name1=canonchet&style=&hfunc=&cfunc=&x=0&y=0 Canonchet Village Historic District], State of Rhode Island, Historyic Property Search, Retrieved May 24, 2023</ref> The community is located due northeast of the center of Hopkinton and both [[Interstate 95 in Rhode Island|Interstate 95]] and [[Rhode Island Route 3]] run through it. Interstate 95's Exit 2 is located in Canonchet. [[Canonchet]] is also the name of a Narragansett sachem in the area who was executed during [[King Philip's War]].

1920 U.S. Census data listed the village's population as 124.<ref name="1920census">[https://archive.org/details/1920populationof00lori/page/n23/mode/2up?q=canonchet 1920 Population of the United States] (1921)</ref>

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