Little Compton Common Historic District

Little Compton Common Historic District
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Historic district
Common in 2008
Location:	Little Compton, Rhode Island
Architect:	Unknown
Architectural style:	Greek Revival, Late Victorian
Governing body:	U.S. POSTAL SERVICE
NRHP Reference#:	74000041 [1]
Added to NRHP:	May 3, 1974

Little Compton Common Historic District (or Little Compton Commons) is a historic district in Little Compton, Rhode Island.

The area features a various Greek Revival and Victorian buildings, a Congregational church and a town common, one of only two remaining in Rhode Island. The common contains a large colonial cemetery with many graves, including those of American Revolution veterans and other notable individuals.^[2] The area was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.^[1]

Notable people buried in the Cemetery

• Benjamin Church (military officer), King Philip's War hero, father of United States Army Rangers^[2]
• Elizabeth Pabodie first white woman born in New England, the daughter of Mayflower Pilgrims^[2]

References

1. ^ ^{a b} "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. 2007-01-23. http://nrhp.focus.nps.gov/natreg/docs/All_Data.html. 
2. ^ ^{a b c} Rhode Island: a guide to the smallest state By Federal Writers' Project. Rhode Island (Houghton Mifflin company, 1937) pg. 423 http://books.google.com/books?id=ntN4AAAAMAAJ&source=gbs_navlinks_s

External links

• United Congregational Church in Little Compton
• Wilson Riley Buxton, Roswell Beebe Burchard, The Two-hundredth anniversary of the organization of the United Congregational Church, Little Compton, Rhode Island, September 7, 1904 (United Congregational Society, 1906) AVAILABLE ONLINE