Furnace Hill Brook Historic and Archeological District

Historic district in Rhode Island, United States

United States historic place


Furnace Hill Brook Historic and Archeological District
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Historic district


Nearest city	Cranston, Rhode Island
Built	1800
Architectural style	Greek Revival
NRHP reference No.	80000097^[1]
Added to NRHP	August 6, 1980

The Furnace Hill Brook Historic and Archeological District in a historic district in Cranston, Rhode Island.

The site features archaeological industrial remains dating from the early 19th century, as well as a series of prehistoric Native American settlements, dating from the Late Archaic to the Early Woodland periods.^[2] One major locus of the Native settlements, a knoll at the confluence of Furnace Hill Brook, Church Brook, and Meshanticut Brook, was destroyed in 1967 by the construction of a highway cloverleaf (the interchange between I-295 and Rhode Island Route 37), although salvage archaeology was successful in obtaining some artifacts.^[3] Further up Furnace Hill Brook are the remains of an iron foundry established in 1812.

The site was added to the National Register of Historic Places on August 6, 1980.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. January 23, 2007.
^ Waller, Joseph N.; Leveillee, Alan (1998). Lavin, Lucianne (ed.). "Archaeological Investigation at Site RI 2050 in Cranston, Rhode Island: A Native American Steatite Processing Site" (PDF). Bulletin of the Archaeological Society of Connecticut. 61. Archaeological Society of Connecticut: 3–16. Retrieved December 12, 2022.
^ Waddicor, Arthur; Mitchell, Morris (1969). "Furnace Hill Brook Site: A Salvage Dig". Bulletin of the Massachusetts Archaeological Society. 30 (2): 4–10. Retrieved December 12, 2022 – via Bridgewater State University.