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Wickford: Smith's Castle
Smith's Castle (c. 1678), Wickford, Rhode Island.
Wickford
village and administrative centre, Rhode Island, United States
Wickford, resort village and administrative centre of North Kingstown town (township), Washington county, south-central Rhode Island, U.S., on an inlet of Narragansett Bay. It has an unusually large number of restored colonial and 19th-century buildings, an art colony, and one of the largest marinas in Rhode Island.
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