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HISTORIC SITES.
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The Green Bush Tavern stood on the west side of the highway, north of the residence of R. D. Horton, Esq.

The Josiah Kinnicutt Tavern stood near the Barrington River, on the north side of the road, at the first angle, north of the Congregational meeting house. The first post-office in Barrington was opened at this tavern.

The George R. Kinnicutt Tavern, stage office, and post-office, stands near the site of the first Kinnicutt tavern.

The Henry Bowen Tavern stood on the west side of the road, about twenty-five rods north of the Congregational meeting house. It was destroyed by fire about 1875.

The Kinnicutt-Townsend House, which stood in Happy Hollow, a few rods north of the Town Hall, was licensed as an inn during the Revolution.

The Col. Nathaniel Martin Ferry House stood on the north side of the Ferry Lane, fronting on the river.

Among the old houses now standing may be mentioned: The Matthew Watson House, at Nayatt; The General Thomas Allin House, at Drownville; The Allin House, near the Barrington River, north of the Congregational meeting house; The Old Parsonage House, now owned by Mrs. Charles Miller; The Andrews-Bean House, near the Allin House; The Brown House, west of the Kinnicutt Tavern; The Rev. Peleg Heath House, now occupied by Mr. William Carter; The Joel Peck House; The Joshua Bicknell House, now used by the St. Andrew's School; The stone house at Barneysville, probably built in part before Philip's war; on New Meadow Neck are the old houses of the Martins, the Drowns, the Bowens, the Bishops, and others. At Rumstick is the Guard House, owned by Nathaniel Smith, and at Nayatt, the Guard House, owned by the Browns.

The cemeteries at Burial Hill, Tyler's Point, Prince's Hill, and Little Neck, at Wannamoiset, and the Watson Yard at Nayatt, are of interest as the places where

"The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep."