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Coventry is located in Kent County
Population: 31,083 On August 24, 1741, the western end of the Town of Warwick had been purchased by Samuel Gorton, and others from Miantonomi. It was set off and incorporated into a township to be known as Coventry and named for Coventry, England. The new town extended from what is now West Warwick to the Connecticut line, and contained 64.8 square miles. Therefore it became larger than its mother town, but was more sparsely populated. Early figures show that in 1748, Coventry's population was approximately 792.
Several villages, originally built around mills, lie in the eastern section of town close to the West Warwick boundary. Anthony, was settled around a cotton mill built c. 1805. Washington, was actually founded as the rural village of Braytonville in the mid-18TH Century, but the arrival of the Washington Manufacturing Company, in 1812, turned it into a textile center. In the most north eastern corner of Coventry are the mill villages of Harris, Phenix, and just over the Cranston line, Fiskeville, with a few good examples of 19TH Century mill cottages and mill architecture.
Today, while the western portion of Coventry is still rural in nature, the eastern section is one of the most rapidly growing residential communities in Rhode Island. However, the community still retains some old textile mill villages. The housing pattern consists of multi-family units in the older sections of the town, and owner occupied single family units in the newly developed areas. Commercial strip and shopping centers are the main commerce outlets.
