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What to See & Do in Watch Hill RI |
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Spend time at the beach, window-shop along Bay Street, ride the historic carousel, buy ice cream cones early and often. |
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Watch Hill is a place to start a romance, or to pursue one; to read and relax, or swim strenuously all day—to do as you please. There are no crowds, no neon signs, no plastic "lifestyles." Children will jump at the chance to ride on the 1883 Carousel at the end of Bay Street, one of the oldest merry-go-rounds in the nation. In the little park across Bay Street from the Olympia Tea Room is a statue (1914) of Ninigret, Great Sachem of the Narragansett Indians, a noble man and friend of the local English colonists. Watch Hill is a bit of fading glory, which, luckily for those who go there, the rest of the world has already passed by.
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Above, the 1883
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