Key Facts
The early bay maps (e.g. Charles Blaskowitz, 1777) clearly show Chepiwanoxet as an island. It became a peninsula, when the Gallaudet seaplane factory was constructed in cc. 1915. For trucks to reach the factory, fill was dumped into the marsh, making a causeway access which still remains. As a result of blocking water circulation around the island, Arnold Cove gradually silted into a tidal marsh, located on the northwest side of the island. The island is now a Warwick City Park, open to the public.
The Soil Survey of Rhode Island lists Chepiwanoxet Point and nearby shores as "Hinckley gravelly sandy loam"; a very porous, well-drained soil of glacial origin, which is of poor topsoil quality. The soil type change (to a bit of "Walpole sandy loam", associated with severe wetness) can only occur in the marsh.
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