Little Compton Common Historic District


Little Compton Common Historic District
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Historic district
Common in 2008
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Location	Little Compton, Rhode Island
Architect	Unknown
Architectural style	Greek Revival, Late Victorian
NRHP Reference #	74000041 ^[1]
Added to NRHP	May 3, 1974

The Little Compton Common Historic District (or Little Compton Commons) is a historic district in Little Compton, Rhode Island.

The area features a various Greek Revival and Victorian buildings, a Congregational church and a town common, one of only two remaining in Rhode Island. The common contains a large colonial cemetery with many graves, including those of American Revolutionary War veterans and other notable individuals.^[2] The area was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.^[1]

Notable people buried in the Cemetery

Benjamin Church (ranger), King Philip's War hero, father of United States Army Rangers^[2]
Elizabeth Pabodie first white woman born in New England, the daughter of Mayflower Pilgrims^[2]

1 2 National Park Service (2007-01-23). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
1 2 3 Rhode Island: a guide to the smallest state By Federal Writers' Project. Rhode Island (Houghton Mifflin company, 1937) pg. 423 https://books.google.com/books?id=ntN4AAAAMAAJ&source=gbs_navlinks_s

United Congregational Church in Little Compton
Wilson Riley Buxton, Roswell Beebe Burchard, The Two-hundredth anniversary of the organization of the United Congregational Church, Little Compton, Rhode Island, September 7, 1904 (United Congregational Society, 1906) AVAILABLE ONLINE

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