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Paperback The Lost Villages of Scituate Book

ISBN: 0738565865

ISBN13: 9780738565866

The Lost Villages of Scituate

(Part of the Images of America: Rhode Island Series)

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In 1915, the general assembly appointed the Providence Water Supply Board to condemn 14,800 acres of land in rural Scituate. The hardworking people of the five villages were devastated.


By December 1916, notices were delivered to the villagers stating that the homes and land they had owned for generations were to be taken and destroyed. Construction was well under way by 1921, and water was being stored by November 10, 1925. On...

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