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Don D’Amato
Don D’Amato, Warwick’s official City
Historian since 1985, has seen the revitalization of the city’s
villages and communities over the last three decades. His writings
and research have helped to preserve Warwick’s past and have
led to an understanding of its present.
Don’s in-depth look at Warwick, through its villages and historic
places from 1643 until the present time, will be featured on this
web site with episodes added on the 1st and 3rd Monday of each month.
To begin, simply click on the link within the Table of Contents
listed below.
Table of Contents
Conimicut Village
1. Introduction
(07/02/04)
2. Conimicut Village
(and its environs) (07/02/04)
3. The Attack on Shawomet (07/19/04)
4. The Burning of Warwick (08/02/04)
5. Smuggling activities and the
Moses Greene house (08/16/04)
6. From Mark Rock Rowdiness to
Sunday School (09/06/04)
7. Woodbury Union Church/ Conimicut Volunteer
Fire Dept (09/20/04)
8. Conimicut: A Modern Village (10/04/04)
Apponaug Village
1. Introduction (10/18/04)
2. Early 19th century recollections
of Drum Rock (11/01/04)
3. Apponaug Village: The Four Mile
Common (11/15/04)
4. The Greenes in Apponaug (12/06/04)|
5. Jacob Greene & Co. in Apponaug
(12/20/04)
6. Fuller and Rousmaniere on Apponaug
(01/3/05)
7. George Sears Greene (01/17/05)
8. Greene Memorial House (02/07/05)
9. Along Apponaug's "Judges Row"
(02/21/05)
10. A Railroad brings changes to Apponaug
(03/07/05)
11. The Oriental Print Works comes to Apponaug
(03/21/05)
12. Apponaug prospers, thanks to Lustig
(04/04/05)
13. The Devastating Apponaug Fires (04/18/05)
14. 19th Century Municipal Center (05/02/05)
15. A New Town Hall and a Divided Town
(05/16/05)
16. Warwick keeps the Town Hall after the
Separation of 1913 (06/06/05)
17. Apponaug's "Stolen Cannon"
Mystery (06/20/05)
18. Fulling Mills
- was there ever a place to be compared to it? (07/04/05)
19. Father and Son
Cafe, An Apponaug Landmark (07/18/05)
20. Apponaug's Changing Four Corners (08/01/05)
21. Warwick Central Baptist Church can
be traced back to 1744 (08/15/05)
22. St. Barnabas' Wooden Church (09/05/05)
23. Apponaug's Churches foster a spirit
of community (09/19/05)
24. St. Catherine's Church (part 2) (10/03/05)
25. Apponaug's Post Road and Williams Corner
(10/17/05)
26. The Oscar Aylsworth House (11/07/05)
27. Dot Mayor, an Apponaug Activist (11/21/05)
28. Apponaug's "Good Old Days"
(12/5/05)
29. Apponaug's Shamrock Café (12/19/05)
30. The old café, a building of
many uses (1/2/06)
31. Michael B. Lynch - An Apponaug Legend
(1/16/06)
32. High Sheriff Michael Lynch looks to
the past. (2/6/06)
33. Apponaug's "Old Swimming Holes"(2/20/06)
34. They Remember Apponaug (3/6/06)
35. Everett Eastman Remembers Apponaug
(3/20/06)
Warwick Police
1. The Early Police in Warwick (4/5/06)
2. Officer Gendron, an early casualty (4/17/06)
3. A Career in Jeopardy (5/1/06)
4. Part Time Police Work (5/15/06)
5. The Turbulent Twenties (6/5/06)
6. Warwick's Police 1930 - 1935 (6/19/06)
7. James F. Lynch makes his mark in police
work (7/3/06)
8. Another Lynch enters police
work (7/17/06)
9. The Post War Police face new problems
(8/7/06)
10. Warwick F.O.P., Lodge #7 (8/21/06)
11. The Lynch Family continues in the field of law (9/4/06)
Pontiac Village
1. Change comes to the historic mill at Pontiac (9/18/06)
2. The Knights take over Clarksville (10/2/06)
3. Paternalism, a way of life in Pontiac (10/16/06)
4. All Saints Church benefits from the Knights' generosity. (11/6/06)
5. The Pontiac Library - a priceless gem (11/20/06)
6. Prosperity and Expansion (12/4/06)
7. The Swedish Lutheran Church traces its origins to 1874 (12/18/06)
8. A New St. Paul's is Built in 1916 (1/1/07)
9. World War I drastically changes Pontiac (1/15/07)
10. The Long and Terrible Strike of 1922 (2/5/07)
11. Pontiac affected by bitterness and violence (2/19/07)
12. Troops came to Natick and Pontiac to quell the riots (3/5/07)
13. The end of the paternalistic era in Pontiac (3/19/07)
14. Pontiac hosted various ethnic groups (4/2/07)
15. Memories from Pontiac's "Mortgage Hill" (4/16/07)
16. Pontiac's Railroad Station, Post Office, Politics, and Potholes (5/7/07)
17. The Italians maintained their Old World atmosphere in Pontiac (5/21/07)
18. The Fabre line brings thousands from Italy to Rhode Island (6/4/07)
19. The impact of the Italian Immigrants on Pontiac and Natick (6/18/07)
20. Luigi Nardella and Father Tirocchi play critical roles in 1922 (7/2/07)
21. The Sacred Heart Church in Natick (7/16/07)
22. Nostalgia and Politics (8/6/07)
23. Pontiac changes during the Depression Years (8/20/07)
24. Pontiac struggles through Depression and War (9/3/07)
25. Pontiac was proud of those who served in World War II (9/17/07)
Knight Estate
1. East Avenue's rural atmosphere supplemented by a Mall and a College (10/1/07)
2. The "Gentleman's Farm (10/15/07)
3. The Spragues at East Avenue Farm (11/5/07)
4. The Knight Family replaced the bankrupt Spragues (11/19/07)
5. The Knights build a model farm on East Avenue (12/3/07)
6. "Fringe Benefits" on the Knight Farm (12/17/07)
7. Webster Knight creates a beautiful "gentleman's farm" on East Avenue (1/7/08)
8. Adelaide Knight's prize flowers & cattle (1/21/08)
9. Miss Adelaide's Farm (2/4/08)
10. A Love for Horses (2/18/08)
11. Late twentieth century changes to the Warwick's Knight Estate (3/3/08)
12. Royal Webster Knight decides to move from his Warwick estate (3/17/08)
13. CCRI moves to the Knight Estate in Warwick (4/7/08)
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