Battle of RI
August 1778
Captain Robert Gray
1819 Map of Tiverton
The Whipping Post
Old Crump’s Tavern (1700’s-1901)
(corner of Souza & Main Roads)
Abraham Brown House, Main Road (photo before 1930)
North (left) side built 1765 by Abraham Jr; South side built 1812 by son Isaac
General Lafayette’s Headquarters in 1778
Neck Road Windmill (built 1776)
Edwin Hambly’s Blacksmith Shop
(across from 1784 Main Road; destroyed by 1938 Hurricane)
William J. Brightman House, ca. 1875
(across from Standish Boat Yard on Main Road)
Bridgeport Block Fisheries
Main Road just north of Nannaquaket Pond (front addition no longer there)
Tiverton Bank Note – 1857
Reuben Hart Farm, Crandall Road (now Wingover Farm)
George Kavanagh family vacation
1907 Church Brothers Fisheries
1910 Pogy Fishing Fleet
1908 View of Tiverton from The Hummocks in Portsmouth
The Lawton House in 1907
(first one burned down in 1884)
1906 Bird’s Eye View of homes & Tiverton shoreline
Fall River Yacht Club in 1909
(destroyed by the 1938 Hurricane)
View of Stone Bridge from the Railroad in 1910
View from the Railroad tracks in 1910
View from Stone Bridge in 1910
Sakonnet River and the Nathaniel Church estate in 1912 (viewed from Grinnell’s Beach area)
Benjamin Barker House
(where Rte 24 & Sakonnet Bay elderly housing is now)
Barker Heights
Stone Bridge Hotel – 1920
Stone Bridge Inn – 1950
1938 Hurricane attacks the WWI Doughboy statue at the base of the Stone Bridge (seen in the distance). The lobster shack is shown on the right, partially submerged.
1938 Hurricane at Stone Bridge
1938 Hurricane washing over the Railroad Bridge in Tiverton.
1938 Hurricane snaps boats from their moorings in the Tiverton Basin and pushes them toward the Railroad Bridge.
Stone Bridge during the 1938 Hurricane, barely visible. A tea room washed away just before this was taken.
Part of P.D. Humphrey Company’s building on Riverside Drive with the waters of the 1938 Hurricane halfway up the windows.
After the 1938 Hurricane waters subsided, boats were piled up alongside the Railroad Bridge in Tiverton.
1938 Hurricane damage to boats on Riverside Drive
1938 Hurricane – Tiverton aftermath
1938 Hurricane damage to Riverside Drive houses
The 1938 Hurricane swept the Nanquaket Bridge away from its foundations to land 150 yards away (as shown in the background).
1938 Hurricane washes up Nanaquaket Bridge 200 feet away on land
1938 Hurricane damage in Tiverton Basin
Rebuilding the 1938 Hurricane damage on the Stone Bridge
William H. Durfee, Sakonnet Point lighthouse keeper
WWI Doughboy Statue in 1940[/caption]
WWII gun arrives at the Tiverton Railroad bound for Little Compton battery
Stone Bridge Inn & WWI Doughboy Statue
Stone Bridge Inn & Doughboy Statue in 1950
Luke’s Lodge (now Victory Chapel)
Crandall Road
Tiverton Basin – 1968