South Kingstown

South Kingstown

(kĭng`stən, kĭngz`toun'), town (1990 pop. 24,631), seat of Washington co., S R.I.; settled 1641, inc. 1674 as Kings Towne, divided into South Kingstown and North Kingstown 1723, Narragansett separated 1888. Computer power systems are manufactured. South Kingstown includes the villages of Kingston, seat of the Univ. of Rhode Island, and Wakefield, birthplace (now a museum) of Oliver Hazard PerryPerry, Oliver Hazard,
1785–1819, American naval officer, b. South Kingstown, R.I.; brother of Matthew Calbraith Perry. Appointed a midshipman in 1799, he served in the Tripolitan War, was promoted to lieutenant (1807), and from 1807 to 1809 was engaged in building gunboats.
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. The Narragansetts made their last stand in King Philip's WarKing Philip's War,
1675–76, the most devastating war between the colonists and the Native Americans in New England. The war is named for King Philip, the son of Massasoit and chief of the Wampanoag. His Wampanoag name was Metacom, Metacomet, or Pometacom.
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 at nearby Great Swamp.