East Greenwich Historic District is a historic district roughly bounded by Kenyon Avenue, Division, Peirce, & London Streets, Greenwich Cove and Dark Entry Brook in East Greenwich and Warwick in the U.S. state of Rhode Island.
The area was settled in 1677 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.
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