The Spring 2021 Barrington Preservation Society Newsletter is now available to view.
BPS 2020 Fall Newsletter Now Available
Video: Celebrating Barrington’s History
The year 2017 was an important one for the Town of Barrington, marking the 300th anniversary of the granting of its original charter. The Town and a newly formed Committee thus organized a year long series of events specifically for the occasion. This short video takes us through a brief history of the Town, as told through the Barrington 300 Celebration.
Take a Rhode Tour: Taverns to Temperance in Old Barrington Village
Take A Rhode Tour:
Taverns to Temperance:
A Spirited Tour of Old Barrington Village
Curated by Stephen Venuti
President, Barrington Preservation Society
Before the center of town shifted further south to its current location with the opening of the Town Hall in 1888, much of Barrington life centered around the Congregational Meetinghouse at 461 County Road. This area, now known as “Old Barrington Village,” was a vibrant community inhabited by farmers, shoemakers, cabinet makers, blacksmiths, stage-coach drivers, mariners, shipwrights, ferrymen, and statesmen. It was also the home of at least four now long-gone taverns. This interactive web/smartphone tour focuses on that small but fascinating piece of Barrington history.
Click image to launch this Rhode Tour:
Rhode Tour is 
a joint initiative of the Rhode Island Council for the Humanities, Brown University’s John Nicholas Brown Center for Public Humanities and Cultural Heritage, and the Rhode Island Historical Society. Rhode Tour is a smartphone app and website that uses text, sound, and images to bring Rhode Island stories to the palm of your hand.
New Barrington Book: Barrington Massachusetts Town Meeting Records
The Barrington, Massachusetts, town meeting records, for which BPS co-sponsored preservation treatment two years ago, have now been published, as the 2020 volume of “Gleanings from Rhode Island Town Records”, the annual supplement to Rhode Island Roots, the journal of the Rhode Island Genealogical society.
The records cover the years 1718 to 1744, and are arranged and indexed to search for specific Barringtonians. Two introductions cover the place of these records in Barrington history, and the making of the new publication.
This book will shortly be available for order from Rhode Island Genealogical Society at the following online store link:
Video: The General Thomas Allin House and Barrington’s Colonial Past
Join Preservation Society volunteer Nathaniel Taylor in a virtual presentation on Barrington’s colonial history and oldest houses, with a tour of the General Thomas Allin House. This is the third in our series of virtual tours made this spring for the Barrington Public Schools.
Video: A Virtual Tour of Barrington Town Government
Barrington Preservation Society is proud to be part of the annual third grade field trips to learn about Barrington’s Town Hall, Town Museum, and adjacent Prince’s Hill Cemetery. This video introduces Barrington’s Town Hall and government for all those who cannot make the field trip in person this year. Thanks to all who participated in making this Virtual Tour of Barrington Town Government!
Video: A Tour of Prince’s Hill Cemetery
Join Barrington Preservation Society volunteer Sydney Montstream-Quas as she gives a video tour of Prince’s Hill Cemetery:
Video: Barrington’s Italian-American Heritage
Liam McGuirl, Barrington High School Class of 2015, produced and directed this short documentary as his BHS Senior Project:
THE WAY WE WERE: Paul Darling’s Photographs of Barrington, 1949-2019
The Way We Were:
Paul Darling Photographs
1949–2019
Opening Reception
Wednesday, February 26, 2020
Barrington Preservation Society Museum
Peck Community Center, Lower Level
Meet Paul Darling and view his photographs dating back sixty years. In 1959 and again in 1999, Paul Darling joined two WPRO co-workers flying over and taking pictures of Barrington in the colleagues’ Piper Cub airplane. The resulting photographs show Barrington’s evolution from a still-rural community to a commuter suburb of Providence.
The Barrington Preservation Society Museum is open Wednesdays and Saturdays from 1 to 4 pm, and the exhibition will continue through June 2020.
FREE — OPEN TO THE PUBLIC — REFRESHMENTS PROVIDED
