South Kingstown, RI

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South Kingstown is the largest town in the South County region of Rhode Island.  It contains the villages of Kingston, West Kingston, Matunuck, Peacedale and Wakefield. Home to the historic villages of Wakefield and Kingston, South Kingstown showcases some of Rhode Island’s oldest buildings.  Throughout the school year, it remains active with college students attending the University of Rhode Island. And throughout the summertime, tourists come in to spend time relaxing on the many beaches located in or near South Kingstown.

The original town of King’s Towne, incorporated in 1674, included the present towns of South Kingstown, North Kingstown and Narragansett. It was in this area that the Narragansett Indians hunted, fished, raised corn and held forth against the rival Niantic Indians. The first settlement was in South Kingstown, and it was there in the Great Swamp Fight, in 1675, that colonial soldiers from Rhode Island, Massachusetts and Connecticut gave King Philip his greatest defeat.

Capitalizing on its exceptional shoreline and beach areas, the town has also experienced significant residential expansion, and development of its summer resort and tourist facilities.