2023 Plaque Program: Transformations: Wednesday 9/13 at 7 PM

Please join Barrington Preservation Society on Wednesday, September 13, 2023, at 7PM in the Salem Family Auditorium, Barrington Public Library, for our Annual Plaque Program. During this year’s event, five historic homes will be recognized and presented with new BPS historic house plaques. BPS Past President Nathaniel Taylor will provide this year’s program lecture, highlighting Barrington’s growth and development during this transformative turn-of-the-century period, as seen through this year’s plaque recipient properties, their original owners, and their neighborhoods.

2023 New Plaque Recipients:

Pary-Farina House, c. 1892/1923
100 Maple Avenue

Caleb R. Nye, 1895
50 Lincoln Avenue

Isaac F. Foster, 1910
132 County Road

C. Moulton Stone, c. 1917
37 New Meadow Road

Edmund P. Sayles, 1923
3 Glen Avenue

 

Beyond the Monument: Reconsidering the History of Enslavement in Barrington, R.I.

This report focuses on the brave men who joined the ‘First Black Regiment’ during American Revolution and sacrificed all in their quest for freedom from enslavement as well as British rule. The report, delivered at the New England Historical Association 2021 Fall Conference, October 23rd, 2021, was written and presented by Stephen Venuti, BPS President with introduction by Roger Williams University (RWU) Associate Professor Charlotte Carrington-Farmer the session organizer.