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|name            = East Greenwich
|settlement_type          = [[New England town|Town]]
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|subdivision_name1        = [[Rhode Island]]
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|subdivision_name2        = [[Kent County, Rhode Island|Kent]]

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|leader_title             = Town Council
|leader_name              = Mark Schwager, President (D)<br />Mike Donegan, Vice President (D)<br />Caryn Corenthal (D)<br />Renu Englehart (D)<br />Michael Zarrella (D)
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|population_as_of         = [[2020 United States census|2020]]
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|population_total         = 14312
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|population_density_sq_mi = 863.2

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|postal_code              = 02818
|area_code                = [[Area code 401|401]]
|blank_name               = [[Federal Information Processing Standard|FIPS code]]
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'''East Greenwich''' is a [[New England town|town]] and the [[county seat]] of [[Kent County, Rhode Island]].<ref name="GR6">{{cite web |url=http://www.naco.org/Counties/Pages/FindACounty.aspx |access-date=June 7, 2011 |title=Find a County |publisher=National Association of Counties |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120712220218/http://www.naco.org/Counties/Pages/FindACounty.aspx |archive-date=July 12, 2012 }}</ref> The population was 14,312 at the [[2020 United States census|2020 census]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://data.census.gov/cedsci/profile?g=0600000US4400322240|title=Census - Geography Profile: Greenwich town, Kent County, Rhode Island|access-date=December 23, 2021}}</ref> East Greenwich is the wealthiest municipality within the state of Rhode Island. It is part of the Providence metropolitan statistical area and the Greater Boston combined statistical area.

Formed as Greenwich in 1677, it was named for [[Greenwich]], England.<ref>{{cite book | url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_9V1IAAAAMAAJ | title=The Origin of Certain Place Names in the United States | publisher=Govt. Print. Off. | author=Gannett, Henry | year=1905 | pages=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_9V1IAAAAMAAJ/page/n111 112]}}</ref> It was renamed Dedford in 1686 but reverted to its original name in 1689. In 1741 the more rural western three quarters of the town was set off as [[West Greenwich, Rhode Island|West Greenwich]], the remaining quarter of it thenceforth being called East Greenwich. Until 1854, it was one of the five state capitals for Rhode Island. The General Assembly, when meeting in East Greenwich, used the [[Kent County Courthouse (Rhode Island)|local courthouse]], which is today the town hall. East Greenwich Village is located in the northeastern part of the town and extends north about {{convert|1.5|km|order=flip|abbr=on}} into the city of [[Warwick, Rhode Island]]. The town is now known for its waterfront, school district, and downtown restaurant/shopping district.

[[File:Seal of East Greenwich.jpg|alt=seal east greenwich|thumb|Seal of East Greenwich]]

==History==
East Greenwich, the 8th oldest town in Rhode Island,<ref name="eastgreenwichri.com">{{Cite web|url=http://www.eastgreenwichri.com/196/History-Birth-Place-of-the-Navy|title=History & Birth Place of the Navy {{!}} East Greenwich, RI|website=www.eastgreenwichri.com|access-date=February 6, 2019}}</ref> was founded in October 1677 by the [[Rhode Island General Assembly|General Assembly]] in an attempt to solidify land claims against those of [[Connecticut]] and the Narragansett Proprietors. The Assembly designated 5,000&nbsp;acres to the new town and provided lots to settlers who would agree to live there—land was deeded to 48 men who had fought in [[King Phillip's War]] against the Wampanoag.<ref>{{cite web |title=History of East Greenwich |url=https://eghps.org/cpage.php?pt=8 |website=East Greenwich Historical Preservation Society |access-date=January 22, 2021}}</ref> Locals quickly took the assembly up on this offer, and the quick establishment of the town helped hold back plans of Connecticut in pushing their border eastward.<ref name=James>{{cite book|last=James|first=Sydney|title=Colonial Rhode Island: A History|year=1975|publisher=Kraus International Publications|isbn=9780527187200|page=104}}</ref> East Greenwich was therefore the only Rhode Island town established by an act of government, not commercial interests.<ref name=Daniels>{{cite book|last=Daniels|first=Bruce C.|title=Dissent and Conformity on Narragansett Bay: The Colonial Rhode Island Town|year=1983|publisher=Wesleyan|isbn=9780819550835|page=[https://archive.org/details/dissentconformit0000dani/page/30 30]|url=https://archive.org/details/dissentconformit0000dani/page/30}}</ref> In 1687, the Narragansett Proprietors attempted to settle land north of Wickford which overlapped with the land of East Greenwich; however, the Massachusetts governor [[Sir Edmund Andros]], who had authority to settle the dispute, ruled in favor of the existing East Greenwich settlement.

In the 18th century, the government released previously reserved waterfront property in small lots. Beginning in 1711, the local government granted these lots to any person who would pay one shilling and promise to build a commercial building of a minimum size. By 1725, a community had developed, complete with a schoolhouse and a graveyard. However, citizens of the town complained that attending town meetings was too difficult due to the size of the town, which prompted the splitting of [[West Greenwich]] into its own town in 1741. The town erected a courthouse when East Greenwich was designated the [[county seat|shire town]] of the newly formed Kent County, which had been separated from [[Providence County]] in 1750. On June 12, 1772, a resolution was passed by the Rhode Island State Assembly to form the United States' first Navy in East Greenwich, which included two ships, the [[USS Providence (1775)#Service as Katy|Katy]] and the Washington. The Assembly put Captain Abraham Whipple in charge of this new military branch and these ships, with the formal title commodore.<ref name="eastgreenwichri.com"/>

In its colonial days, the town was also home to followers of a former [[Quakers|Quaker]] who, after a severe illness, claimed to have died and been resurrected as the "[[Public Universal Friend]]"; these followers financed a meeting house within the town.<ref name="Daniels" />

===Scalloptown===
[[File:Scalloptown-shanties-2048x1598.jpg|thumb|right| Scalloptown shanties in the early 20th Century]] 
In the 19th Century, East Greenwich attracted a wave of immigrants from Ireland, Italy, Germany, and Scandinavian countries, as well as free Blacks.<ref name="Landeck" /> Many settled in a small community which came to be known as Scalloptown, as many residents made a living from fishing and selling scallops.<ref name="Landeck" />  As it grew, the neighborhood of immigrants and mixed ethnicities developed a reputation as a "shantytown" of "low and lawless nature" by white writers and community leaders.<ref name="Landeck" /> The neighborhood's height was from 1890 to 1913.<ref name="Landeck" /> In 1913, the town council condemned many of the residences of Scalloptown as unfit for habitation.<ref name="Landeck" /> Currently, only one shellfish processing business remains on the street.

Most of East Greenwich's neighborhood of Scalloptown was destroyed by 1926, after a mass eviction order by the town council left most of its buildings vacant. Scalloptown had been the attention of reformers in town for some time. Scalloptown was the site of "Neighborhood House", a [[settlement house]] run by [[Sarah Fernandis]] from 1908 on.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Streich |first1=Catherine |title=Beginning & End of EG's Black Enclave: Scalloptown, Part One |url=https://eastgreenwichnews.com/scalloptown-beginning-and-end-of-egs-black-enclave-part-one/ |website=East Greenwich News |access-date=December 12, 2020 |date=August 1, 2020}}</ref> But, historian Catherine Streich argues, the racial prejudices of white East Greenwich residents and their dwindling desire for social reform led to their destruction of Scalloptown.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Streich |first1=Catherine |title=Reform – What Went Wrong? Scalloptown, Part Two |url=https://eastgreenwichnews.com/reform-what-went-wrong-scalloptown-part-two/ |website=East Greenwich News |access-date=December 12, 2020 |date=August 2, 2020}}</ref>

==Geography==
East Greenwich is a coastal town, located on the western side of Narragansett Bay.<ref name="ReferenceA">{{Cite web|url=https://www.eastgreenwichri.com/195/About-East-Greenwich|title=About East Greenwich {{!}} East Greenwich, RI|website=www.eastgreenwichri.com|access-date=February 6, 2019}}</ref> Of its total area of 16.71 square miles, 16.58 square miles is land and 0.14 square miles is water.<ref name="ReferenceA"/> 20 percent of the land in East Greenwich consists of undeveloped woods and farmland, although development continues to bring this proportion down.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://eglandtrust.org/trends.html | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130908154643/http://eglandtrust.org/trends.html | url-status=dead | archive-date=September 8, 2013 | title=East Greenwich Land Trust- Trends | work=East Greenwich Municipal Land Trust | year=2010 | access-date=October 21, 2013 }}</ref>

Various roads form approximate borders with some of its neighboring towns. Division Street sits between East Greenwich and Warwick, to the north and west until Route 2. South and east is North Kingstown which is roughly separated from East Greenwich by Frenchtown Road.<ref name="ReferenceA"/>

===Climate===
According to the [[Köppen climate classification]], East Greenwich has either a [[Humid continental climate#Hot summer subtype|hot-summer humid continental climate]] (abbreviated ''Dfa''), or a hot-summer [[Humid subtropical climate|humid sub-tropical climate]] (abbreviated ''Cfa''), depending on the isotherm used.

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==Schools==
[[File:East Greenwich Town House.jpg|thumb|East Greenwich public schools central office at 111 Pierce Street]]
{{Main|East Greenwich School District}}
East Greenwich is home to six public schools in its school district. The district contains two zoning districts for its elementary schools. Students in one district, which primarily consists of households east of South County Trail, attend Meadowbrook Farms Elementary from kindergarten to second grade, then proceed to George R. Hanaford School for third grade to fifth grade. Most students who live west of South County Trail will attend Frenchtown Elementary for kindergarten to second grade before attending James H. Eldredge School for third grade to fifth grade.<ref>{{cite web|title=Map of East Greenwich School Zones|url=http://www.egsd.net/files/773344/map%20of%20east%20greenwich%20school%20zones.pdf|work=East Greenwich School District|access-date=October 18, 2013|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140817143341/http://www.egsd.net/files/773344/map%20of%20east%20greenwich%20school%20zones.pdf|archive-date=August 17, 2014}}</ref> All students in the public school district then attend [[Archie R. Cole Middle School]] for sixth grade to eighth grade. The district's single high school is [[East Greenwich High School]].

In 2015, ''[[Newsweek]]'' magazine ranked East Greenwich High School first in Rhode Island and 186th in the United States.

The town also contains the Our Lady Of Mercy Regional School a private [[Catholic Church|Catholic]] school serving students from pre-kindergarten to eighth grade. East Greenwich was also home to the [[East Greenwich Academy]], an eminent preparatory school; however, the school closed in 1943.

East Greenwich is also home to the main campus of the [[New England Institute of Technology]], known informally as New England Tech. The site was purchased by the school in 2007, and opened to students in summer 2011.<ref name="ProJo20140930">{{cite news|title=New England Tech announces $120-million expansion of East Greenwich campus|url=http://www.providencejournal.com/breaking-news/content/20140930-new-england-tech-announces-120-million-expansion-of-east-greenwich-campus.ece|access-date=September 20, 2017|newspaper=The Providence Journal|date=September 30, 2014}}</ref> A major expansion begun in 2014 added dormitories and new instructional space.<ref name="ProJo20140930" /> The campus includes a 265,000 square foot facility<ref name="NEIT-eastgreenwich">{{cite web|title=East Greenwich Campus|url=http://www.neit.edu/About-Us/East-Greenwich-Campus|website=New England Institute of Technology|access-date=September 20, 2017}}</ref> dedicated to classrooms, technical labs, medical suites for training simulations, and administrative services.<ref name="ProJo20140930" />

==Library==
[[File:East Greenwich public library.jpg|thumb|East Greenwich public library]]
The current East Greenwich Free Library, at 82 Pierce Street, was endowed by Daniel Albert Peirce in 1913.<ref name="EGFL">{{cite web|title=Library History|url=http://www.eastgreenwichlibrary.org/about/library-history|website=East Greenwich Free Library|publisher=East Greenwich Free Library|access-date=January 14, 2018|archive-date=January 15, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180115001955/http://www.eastgreenwichlibrary.org/about/library-history|url-status=dead}}</ref> Pierce was a local resident and co-founder of the [[PPL Corporation|Narragansett Electric Company]]. The library building is built of granite from [[Coventry, Rhode Island]], and was dedicated on June 29, 1915.<ref name="EGFL" /> The library includes special collections on Rhode Island history and genealogy.<ref name="EGFL" />

==Waterfront==
Many restaurants, bars, and clubs sit on the waterfront. East Greenwich Cove also has ample boat parking. There is also a public dock good for fishing and eating, and a dock with a small [[beach]]. Across from the coast is Goddard Memorial State Park, which has many beaches including Sandy Point and has easy access from East Greenwich Cove.

Scalloptown Park has been completed at the southern end of Greenwich Cove, built atop the old town landfill.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.egcove.com/scalloptown.html | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121018010702/http://www.egcove.com/scalloptown.html | url-status=dead | archive-date=October 18, 2012 | title=Scallop Town Park | work=East Greenwich Cove | access-date=October 23, 2013 }}</ref> However, it is not part of historical Scalloptown, which was another name for the waterfront in earlier times. Home to a poor community of squatters in the late nineteenth century to the earliest twentieth century, Scalloptown became a community untethered from the rest of East Greenwich.<ref name="Hess">{{cite journal | url=http://www.rihs.org/assetts/files/publications/1970_JulyOct.pdf | title=Black Settlement House, East Greenwich 1902 - 1914 | author=Hess, Jeffrey A. | journal=Rhode Island History | year=1970}}</ref> In contrast to the other villages in East Greenwich, Scalloptown consisted primarily of poor whites and African Americans. The true Scalloptown goes from the town dock down past the clubs to Finn's Marina.

==Demographics==
{{Historical populations
|1708|240
|1730|1223
|1748|1044
|1755|1167
|1774|1663
|1776|1664
|1782|1609
|1790|1824
|1800|1775
|1810|1530
|1820|1519
|1830|1591
|1840|1509
|1850|2358
|1860|2882
|1870|2660
|1880|2887
|1890|3127
|1900|2775
|1910|3420
|1920|3290
|1930|3666
|1940|3842
|1950|4923
|1960|6100
|1970|9577
|1980|10211
|1990|11865
|2000|12948
|2010|13146
|2020|14312
|footnote=U.S. Decennial Census<ref name="DecennialCensus">{{cite web |url=https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/decennial-census.html |title=Census of Population and Housing |publisher=Census.gov |access-date=June 4, 2016 }}</ref><ref name="Cen1865">{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NxsxC5mK7NAC | title=Report upon the Census of Rhode Island 1865 | publisher=Providence Press Company | author=Snow, Edwin M. | year=1867 | location=Providence, RI}}</ref>
}}
As of the [[United States Census]] of 2020, there were 14,312 people and 5,281 households in the town. The population density was {{convert|863.2|PD/sqmi|PD/km2|sp=us|adj=off}}. There were 5,539 housing units in the town. The racial makeup of the town was 85.77% [[White (U.S. Census)|White]], 1.10% [[African American (U.S. Census)|African American]], 0.08% [[Native American (U.S. Census)|Native American]], 5.79% [[Asian (U.S. Census)|Asian]], 0.03% [[Pacific Islander (U.S. Census)|Pacific Islander]], 1.07% from [[Race (United States Census)|other races]], and 6.16% from two or more races. [[Hispanic (U.S. Census)|Hispanic]] or [[Latino (U.S. Census)|Latino]] of any race were 4.16% of the population.

There were 5,281 households, out of which 38.5% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 64.6% were [[Marriage|married couples]] living together, 17.3% had a female householder with no spouse present, and 12.5% had a male householder with no spouse present. 11.2% of all households were made up of individuals, and 8.9% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.67 and the average family size was 3.16.

In the town, the population was spread out, with 26.7% under the age of 18, 5.3% from 18 to 24, 22.3% from 25 to 44, 28.2% from 45 to 64, and 17.5% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 42 years.

The median income for a household in the town was $149,577, and the median income for a family was $198,007. The [[per capita income]] for the town was $77,660. About 5.0% of the population were below the [[poverty line]], including 2.4% of those under age 18 and 4.9% of those age 65 or over.

In 2012–2016, according to the Rhode Island Department of Labor, the median family income was $142,648, the highest in Rhode Island.

East Greenwich and the adjacent Warwick neighborhoods of Cowesett and Potowomut are served by several media outlets: ''East Greenwich News'' (daily) ''East Greenwich Patch'' (daily), ''The East Greenwich Pendulum'' (weekly), ''The North East Independent'' (weekly) and ''East Greenwich magazine'' (monthly).

==Government==
{| class="wikitable" class="toccolours" style="float:right; margin:1em 0 1em 1em; font-size:95%;"
|+ '''East Greenwich town vote<br /> by party in presidential elections'''<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.elections.state.ri.us/elections/preresults/ |title=Rhode Island Board of Elections: Previous Election Results |access-date=August 14, 2018 |archive-date=August 14, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180814134832/http://www.elections.state.ri.us/elections/preresults/ |url-status=dead}} 
</ref>
|-
! Year
![[Republican Party (United States)|GOP]]
![[Democratic Party (United States)|DEM]]
!Others
|-
|  style="text-align:center"; {{Party shading/Democratic}}|'''[[2024 United States presidential election in Rhode Island|2024]]'''
|  style="text-align:center"; {{Party shading/Republican}}|37.47% ''3,203''
|  style="text-align:center"; {{Party shading/Democratic}}|'''59.52%''' ''5,089''
|  style="text-align:center; background:honeyDew;"|3.01% ''257''
|-
|  style="text-align:center"; {{Party shading/Democratic}}|'''[[2020 United States presidential election in Rhode Island|2020]]'''
|  style="text-align:center"; {{Party shading/Republican}}|37.32% ''3,227''
|  style="text-align:center"; {{Party shading/Democratic}}|'''60.34%''' ''5,218''
|  style="text-align:center; background:honeyDew;"|2.34% ''202''
|-
|  style="text-align:center"; {{Party shading/Democratic}}|'''[[United States presidential election in Rhode Island, 2016|2016]]'''
|  style="text-align:center"; {{Party shading/Republican}}|40.60% ''3,122''
|  style="text-align:center"; {{Party shading/Democratic}}|'''52.27%''' ''4,019''
|  style="text-align:center; background:honeyDew;"|7.13% ''548''
|-
|  style="text-align:center"; {{Party shading/Republican}}|'''[[United States presidential election in Rhode Island, 2012|2012]]'''
|  style="text-align:center"; {{Party shading/Republican}}|'''49.93%''' ''3,649''
|  style="text-align:center"; {{Party shading/Democratic}}|48.37% ''3,535''
|  style="text-align:center; background:honeyDew;"|1.70% ''124''
|-
|  style="text-align:center"; {{Party shading/Democratic}}|'''[[United States presidential election in Rhode Island, 2008|2008]]'''
|  style="text-align:center"; {{Party shading/Republican}}|46.95% ''3,570''
|  style="text-align:center"; {{Party shading/Democratic}}|'''51.50%''' ''3,916''
|  style="text-align:center; background:honeyDew;"|1.55% ''118''
|-
|  style="text-align:center"; {{Party shading/Republican}}|'''[[United States presidential election in Rhode Island, 2004|2004]]'''
|  style="text-align:center"; {{Party shading/Republican}}|'''51.72%''' ''3,690''
|  style="text-align:center"; {{Party shading/Democratic}}|46.10% ''3,289''
|  style="text-align:center; background:honeyDew;"|2.19% ''156''
|-
|  style="text-align:center"; {{Party shading/Republican}}|'''[[United States presidential election in Rhode Island, 2000|2000]]'''
|  style="text-align:center"; {{Party shading/Republican}}|'''46.99%''' ''3,039''
|  style="text-align:center"; {{Party shading/Democratic}}|45.78% ''2,961''
|  style="text-align:center; background:honeyDew;"|7.24% ''468''
|-
|  style="text-align:center"; {{Party shading/Republican}}|'''[[United States presidential election in Rhode Island, 1996|1996]]'''
|  style="text-align:center"; {{Party shading/Republican}}|'''44.59%''' ''2,703''
|  style="text-align:center"; {{Party shading/Democratic}}|43.10% ''2,613''
|  style="text-align:center; background:honeyDew;"|12.31% ''746''
|-
|  style="text-align:center"; {{Party shading/Republican}}|'''[[United States presidential election in Rhode Island, 1992|1992]]'''
|  style="text-align:center"; {{Party shading/Republican}}|'''41.98%''' ''2,838''
|  style="text-align:center"; {{Party shading/Democratic}}|35.50% ''2,400''
|  style="text-align:center; background:honeyDew;"|22.52% ''1,522''
|-
|  style="text-align:center"; {{Party shading/Republican}}|'''[[United States presidential election in Rhode Island, 1988|1988]]'''
|  style="text-align:center"; {{Party shading/Republican}}|'''60.17%''' ''3,637''
|  style="text-align:center"; {{Party shading/Democratic}}|39.47% ''2,386''
|  style="text-align:center; background:honeyDew;"|0.36% ''22''
|}

In the [[Rhode Island Senate]], East Greenwich is split in terms of representation. Most of the town is in the 35th District, currently represented by [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democrat]] [[Bridget Valverde]], while a tiny sliver of the northwestern quadrant of the town is in the 33rd District, which is currently represented by [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democrat]] [[Leonidas Raptakis|Leonidas P. Raptakis]]. In the [[Rhode Island House of Representatives]], East Greenwich is in the 30th district represented by Democrat Justine Caldwell. At the federal level, all of East Greenwich is included in [[Rhode Island's 2nd congressional district]] and is represented by Democrat [[Seth Magaziner]].

In presidential elections, East Greenwich is one of the very few towns in deep [[Red states and blue states|blue]] Rhode Island that has a tendency to lean Republican. [[Barack Obama]] managed to carry the town by just over 4.5 points in the Democratic wave year of 2008 and in 2020, [[Joe Biden]] won East Greenwich by just over 23 points, marking the best performance for a Democratic presidential nominee in the town in over three decades. Biden also became the first major party candidate to win over sixty percent of the vote in the town since also then vice president [[George H. W. Bush]].

==National Historic Places==
[[File:Clement Weaver House Daniel Howland House in East Greenwich RI.jpg|thumb|[[Clement Weaver-Daniel Howland House|Clement Weaver House]], a historic [[stone ender]] built in 1679, is one of the oldest homes in [[Rhode Island]].]]
* [[Armory of the Kentish Guards]]
* [[Clement Weaver-Daniel Howland House]]
* [[Col. Micah Whitmarsh House]]
* [[East Greenwich Historic District]]
* [[Fry's Hamlet Historic District]]
* [[Gen. James Mitchell Varnum House]]
* [[Kent County Courthouse (Rhode Island)|Kent County Courthouse]]
* [[Massie Wireless Station]]
* [[Richard Briggs Farm]]
* [[Tillinghast Mill Site]]
* [[Tillinghast Road Historic District]]
* [[Windmill Cottage]]{{Clear}}

==Adjacent towns==
{{Geographic location
| Centre = East Greenwich
 | North = [[West Warwick, Rhode Island|West Warwick]], [[Warwick, Rhode Island|Warwick]]
 | Northwest = [[Coventry, Rhode Island|Coventry]]
 | East = [[Warwick, Rhode Island|Warwick]]
 | South = [[North Kingstown, Rhode Island|North Kingstown]]
 | Southwest = [[Exeter, Rhode Island|Exeter]]
 | West = [[West Greenwich, Rhode Island|West Greenwich]]
}}

==See also==
{{Portal|Rhode Island}}
* [[:Category:People from East Greenwich, Rhode Island|People from East Greenwich, Rhode Island]]
* [[New England Wireless and Steam Museum]]
* [[Hunt River (Rhode Island)|Hunt River]]
* [[List of newspapers in Rhode Island]]
* [[Rhode Island locations by per capita income]]
* [[Greenwich#Manor of East Greenwich|Manor of East Greenwich]]

==References==
{{Reflist|refs=
<ref name="Landeck">{{cite news |last1=Landeck |first1=Katie |title=It was called a blight on Rhode Island and then torched. Here's the story of Scalloptown. |url=https://www.providencejournal.com/story/news/history/2023/07/31/scalloptown-in-east-greenwich-recalled-as-a-blight-on-ri/70479328007/ |access-date=August 5, 2023 |publisher=The Providence Journal |date=July 31, 2023}}</ref>
}}

==External links==
{{commons category|East Greenwich, Rhode Island}}
* {{wikivoyage inline|East Greenwich}}
* {{Official website|http://www.eastgreenwichri.com}}
* [http://www.varnumcontinentals.org Varnum Continentals - Historic Museum & Armory]
* {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20051126131128/http://www.eghistoricpreservation.org/ East Greenwich Historical Preservation Society]}}
* [http://varnumcontinentals.org/2017/04/feature-article-remembering-those-who-served-the-east-greenwich-world-war-i-memorial/ Feature article about the World War I Memorial Monument in front of East Greenwich Town Hall] by the Varnum Continentals Historical Organization in East Greenwich, RI.

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