National Register of Historic Places

Gaspee Point

Warwick, Kent County, Rhode Island
Listed
June 7, 1972
Type
Site
Period
Listed
Ref No.
72000018

About this property

Gaspee Point is a small peninsula on the west side of the southern reaches of the Providence River in Warwick, Rhode Island. It is bounded on the north by Passeonkquis Cove and on the south by Occupessatuxet Cove, and is accessible by Namquid Drive in Warwick. The site was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1972. Gaspee Point was the site of one of the first acts in the American Revolution when the Royal Navy's HMS Gaspee was grounded there by American patriots on June 9, 1772 in what became known as the Gaspée affair. HMS Gaspee was a revenue schooner locally detested for its enforcement of the unpopular Navigation Acts. Patriots rowed out to HMS Gaspee whilst stranded on Nanquid, a spit of sand about nine miles below Providence during the night of June 9, 1772. After boarding they burnt the ship in the early hours of Wednesday June 10 in an act of open rebellion against the colonial-era governance of the British Empire, who viewed it as an act of piracy. National Register of Historic Places listings in Kent County, Rhode Island

Location

Warwick, Kent County, Rhode Island
41.74445, -71.37826

Categories

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Sources

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Gaspee Point was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on June 7, 1972.

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