Mark Luzio, a woodworker from New York, was astonished when he saw the interior of the Potter House, an 18th century former tavern on Old Plainfield Pike in Scituate. It had more original, untouched woodwork than he had ever seen in a colonial-era building.
You can learn about the life of Ellen Prentice and many other women from North Kingstown the unknown, the famous, and the infamous on Thursday, May 18, when Tim Cranston, North Kingstown, Town Historian, will be in our Museum Gallery to talk about the Women of Wickford.
It all started with Seril Dodge, a Providence clockmaker and silversmith, and his nephew Nehemiah Dodge, who invented a process for coating less expensive metals such as copper with gold and silver in the 1790s.
Our Museum Gallery is located on the second floor of the Peace Dale Office Building at 1058 Kingstown Road (Route 108) in South Kingstown, Rhode Island.