Watch Hill, Rhode Island

Watch Hill is a wealthy coastal village and also census-designated place (CDP). The village is part of Westerly, Rhode Island.^[1] At the 2020 United States Census, Watch Hill had 212 people living there.^[2] The village is set at the most-southwest point in all of Rhode Island. The village became very important in the 19th and 20th centuries as a major summer resort. It had rich families building sprawling (spread-out) Victorian style cottages near the southwest tips of Rhode Island. Watch Hill was called by the New York Times as a community "with a strong sense of privacy and of discreetly used wealth."^[3]

1. ↑ "Summary Population 2010". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved October 7, 2021.
2. ↑ "Watch Hill CDP, Rhode Island". U.S. Census Bureau. Retrieved August 3, 2023.
3. ↑ Bongartza, Roy (5 July 1981). "Watch Hill to Point Judith". The New York Times. Retrieved October 7, 2021.