Slocum

The farming community of Slocum (formerly Slocumville) was settled originally by the Slocum family around the time of the Revolution. This area known by the original settlers as the Great Plain or later the College Plain, possessed the most fertile farmland in the region as is still farmed extensively to this day.

The village of Slocum was established around 1850 and included eventually a post office, a general store, a train station, a district schoolhouse, a church, and a grange hall.

Farming in the 1800's was varied and a full range of crops was grown, however, by the 1930's, the region specialized in growing Maine potatoes. This has changed too, and now the vast majority of Slocum farmlands are being cultivated for turf farming.

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This is a historic picture of the village of Slocum. This railroad stop in Slocum, Rhode Island, was a pivotal, small station in the southwestern part of North Kingstown that fueled the development of the rural hamlet in the mid-19th century. It served as a critical shipping point for local farmers to send produce to Providence and other markets. Following the arrival of the railroad in the mid-1800s, Slocum developed from a purely agricultural area into a small, tight-knit village. The station was the heart of this community, surrounded by a schoolhouse, church, Grange, and a general store. This building is gone, but remains a memory.

This is a historic picture from the village of Slocum. It is a picture of the old schoolhouse, often called the Slocum District Schoolhouse or Slocumville School. This historic,19th-century one-room schoolhouse, located on Indian Corner Road in the village of Slocum, North Kingstown, Rhode Island, was established as part of the rural agricultural village's development around the mid-1800s.

This is a historic picture from the village of Slocum. It is a picture of the homestead of the Slocum family, the Joseph Slocum House on Slocum Road (about 1/4 mile south of Indian Corner Road) in North Kingstown, Rhode Island. It is a 1+1/2 story wood-frame house, five bays wide with a large central chimney. The house is a rare surviving 18th century farmhouse, a type once numerous in town.