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Peace Dale, Rhode Island

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building located across from the mills that housed offices, a store, the village post office, and a public hall. Over the next several decades he influenced the construction and design of numerous additional buildings, accounting for more than half of the built environment of modern Peace Dale. Rowland Hazard II also was an initial investor in the
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Later in the 19th century, the sons of Rowland G. Hazard, John N. and Rowland Hazard II (1829-1898), assumed responsibility for operating the Peace Dale Mills. In 1856 Rowland Hazard II, an amateur architect, designed several new buildings in Peace Dale, including a new stone weaving mill and a stone
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systems and a fireproof stone factory. In 1848 the partnership incorporated, becoming the Peace Dale Manufacturing Company, with Isaac P. Hazard as president and Rowland G. Hazard as secretary/treasurer. In 1849 the business started a transition into making woolen shawls and other high-quality
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Around 1820 the senior Rowland Hazard renamed the nearby industrial village to Wakefield after the town and family of the same name in England, who were friends of his. Prior to this, the village had been called McCoon's Mill for the
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Peace Dale was established as an official town in 1793 by South Kingstown industrialist Rowland Hazard who named the village in honor of his wife, Mary Peace Hazard. Around 1804, Hazard reputedly pioneered the use of
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assumed management responsibility for the Peace Dale Manufacturing Company. A third brother, Joseph P. Hazard, joined them as a partner in 1828, and the business took the name "R.G. Hazard & Co."
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Peace Dale Pump House, a former water mill that was a restaurant and is now occupied by Shady Lea Guitars, a guitar oriented shop, studio, and performance venue located on Kingstown Rd.
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in 1987. The historic district is roughly bounded by Kersey Rd., Oakwoods Dr., Kingstown Rd., School, Church and Railroad Sts., and contains the historic core of the village.
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machines to process wool in Rhode Island. In 1814, Hazard was also one of the first American manufacturers to employ narrow-width
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Peace Dale's mills operated for woolen manufacturing until 1948, when the manufacturing machinery was removed.
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After an 1845 fire destroyed one of the mill buildings, the brothers built new facilities, including expanded
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Peace Dale Manufacturing Company Records at Baker Library Historical Collections, Harvard Business School
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Peace Dale Manufacturing Co. Water Power Sys., an energy facility built in the 1850s on Kingstown Rd.
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by Kathleen Bossy and Mary Keane. Kingston, R.I. : Pettaquamscutt Historical Society, c. 2004
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Historic and Architectural Resources of South Kingstown, Rhode Island: A Preliminary Report
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Former Peace Dale Grammar School, built in 1902 at 8 Kersey Rd., later used for storage.
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Peace Dale Manufacturing Company Barn, a secondary structure built in 1866, on Green St.
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University and college buildings listed on the National Register of Historic Places
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National Register of Historic Places listings in Washington County, Rhode Island
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Rowland Gibson Hazard, Rhode Island Manufacturer, Politician, and Philosopher
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mill that by the 1820s had been converted to manufacturing woolen textiles.
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Lost South Kingstown : with a history of ten of its early villages
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which connected their textile mills in Peace Dale and Wakefield to the
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Peace Dale Railroad Station (former), built in 1875-76 on Railroad St.
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List of jails and prisons on the National Register of Historic Places
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by Oliver H. Stedman. West Kingston RI : Kingston Press c. 1978
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Peace Dale Office Building, built circa 1856 at 604 Kingstown Rd.
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by J.R. Cole. New York : W. W. Preston & Co., 1889
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factory built in 1847 at Kingstown Rd. and Columbia St.
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General Isaac Peace Rodman House at 1789 Kingstown Rd.
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Historic districts in Washington County, Rhode Island
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History of Washington and Kent counties, Rhode Island
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former auditorium, built in 1890-91 on Kingstown Rd.
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History of the National Register of Historic Places
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U.S. National Register of Historic Places
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Peace Dale, Rhode Island is located in Rhode Island
Peace Dale, Rhode Island is located in the United States
South Kingstown, Rhode Island
41°27′05″N 71°29′46″W / 41.4514°N 71.4961°W / 41.4514; -71.4961
87000493
South Kingstown
Rhode Island
Wakefield
U.S. Census
census-designated place
Wakefield-Peacedale, Rhode Island
National Register of Historic Places
historic district
carding
power looms
Rowland G. Hazard
snuff
hydropower
Solvay Process Company
Solvay, New York
Narragansett Pier Railroad
New York, Providence and Boston Railroad
Kingston Station
Narragansett Pier
contributing properties
Gothic Revival
Colonial Revival

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