Exploring Little Compton’s Past
Seven interactive projects built from the town’s historical records: Revolutionary War pension files, a farm account book, the 1850 census, a diary, and an architectural survey.
-
Project 1Little Compton in the Revolution
Little Compton soldiers and sailors, and their families, remember the Revolution.
Open the project → -
Project 2The Battle of Rhode Island
See what 3,000 veterans remembered about this battle.
Open the project → -
Project 3The Cook Almy Farm
Explore forty years of work, 1800–1849, on the Fogland farm.
Open the project → -
Project 4Little Compton Farms, 1850
Follow the census taker as he records details of every farm in town.
Open the project → -
Project 5Little Compton Families, 1850
The census taker recorded information on every person, too: 239 dwellings, 1,460 people.
Open the project → -
Project 6Sarah Wilbour
Talk with the nineteenth-century Little Compton activist and historian.
Open the project → -
Project 7Little Compton Historic Properties
The Rhode Island Historical Preservation Commission’s 1990 survey, mapped.
Open the project →