![]() ![]() Barn contains historical New England farm items and tools. The Wilbor House was built during 17th, 18th, and 19th Centuries and restored in 1956 by the Historical Society. Historic early 1700s building, maintained by Little Compton Historical Society. ![]() If exploring The Commons, walking will suffice as it is in a small area. Also, there is very little traffic running along Little Compton's main road (Route 77) which makes cycling, walking, and running a more practical means of transportation. There aren't many hills in Little Compton. Little Compton is a bicycle-friendly place because of the long, low sloping roads which travel throughout the area. For the athletic and/or light packers, a bicycle will suffice. Because of this, travelers will desire a car or motorcycle. Little Compton is a small town, but spread across a big portion of land. Once on route 77, anywhere in Little Compton can be easily accessed within twenty minutes. Route 77 runs through the center of Little Compton all the way to the coastline. North on East Main Road (Route 138) or West Main Road (Route 114) to Route 24 North.įrom here, directions are the same as Providence and Boston Areas ![]() Some common routes are:Īt the traffic light at Tiverton Four Corners most travelers go straight, but Little Compton and Adamsville can be reached by going left.įrom 24 south directions are the same as from Boston Area. In order to get to Little Compton, travelers must either go through Tiverton, RI or Westport, MA. Its claim to fame is that it is where the famous Rhode Island Red (a breed of fowl and the Rhode Island state bird) was developed. Little Compton is one of the only places in the state where you can walk on a large, grassy farm while looking out onto the Atlantic Ocean. It is between the Sakonnet River on its west and Massachusetts and the West Branch of the Westport River to the east. It includes the villages of Adamsville and Sakonnet. Just beyond the Commons Lunch is the library, where you can get to a computer.Little Compton is a rural farming town in Newport County in southeastern Rhode Island. They specialize in clams, too, or quahogs they're called locally, and pies and cakes. For breakfast it serves Johnny cakes, meaty, wafer-thin pancakes that have all but disappeared from Rhode Island menus. A fire destroyed it a few years ago, but a most entreneurial owner, George Crowther, has rebuilt and expanded it. Then there's the Commons Lunch, the town cafe. You can spend a half hour in there, wandering room to room. ![]() Wilbur's General Store, rescued from near oblivion a decade or so ago, is now an archetype of the classic model, selling, truly, just about everything, including produce, meat it butchers, domestic hardware, basic clothing, writing paper, newspapers. Hollywood tried to persuade the townspeople to film its raunchy "Witches of Eastwick" but they recoiled and chased the filmmakers off to Massachusetts. You can spend an hour or two strolling the triangular, three-century-old Little Compton Commons, across from the town school, enclosing an old graveyard and the Congregational church, and one of just a few town commons left. ![]()
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