West Greenwich, Rhode Island is a rural town in Kent County. It's one of the
largest towns in Rhode Island by area, but it's not densely populated.
West Greenwich is a 51 square mile rectangle, bordered by Connecticut,
Coventry, East Greenwich, and Exeter. The town's landscape is rolling and
wooded, with granite bedrock and glacial till. West Greenwich was
established in 1639 and incorporated in 1741; it was separated from East
Greenwich A petition was submitted to Governor Richard Ward in 1740 to
make West Greenwich a separate town. It is home to the University of
Rhode Island's W. Alton Jones Campus offers ecological education experiences, Wickaboxet Management Area is a 678-acre area with forests,
wetlands, hiking trails, and hunting. West Greenwich has over 100 historical
cemeteries, some with tombstones from the 1700s.