We are In Historic Wickford Village

Historic Wickford is the original town center of North Kingstown, Rhode Island.  Wickford has the densest concentration of original late Revolutionany and Federal period houses anywhere in New England.

Wickford was established in 1663.  Originally, much of the village was on an island, but that island has long been connected to the main land.

The oldest surviving building in Wickford is the historic Old Narragansett Church, which was built in 1707 and moved to Wickford in 1800.  The building which is located on Church Lane, is unaltered structurally and has retained almost all of its original fixrures, including the altar silver, sent to the parish by Queen Anne in 1708.

Wickford's most famous native is the renowned novelist, John Updike, a descendant of one of the village's founders.  It is generally agreed that Wickford provides the setting for his popular novel, "The Witches of Eastwick".