Saylesville, Rhode island
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The area was settled as a farming community in the 17th century. The historic Eleazer Arnold HouseEleazer Arnold House
The Eleazer Arnold House is a historic house built for Eleazor Arnold in about 1693, and located at 487 Great Road, Lincoln, Rhode Island in the Great Road Historic District...
(built 1693) is located in the village. The Saylesville Meeting House (built 1704) is one of the oldest surviving Quaker (Society of Friends) meeting houses in New England and one of the oldest church buildings in Rhode Island. In the nineteenth century, William F. Sayles, a businessman and philanthropist who owned bleachery mills in Saylesville donated the funds to build Memorial Hospital of Rhode Island
Memorial Hospital of Rhode Island
-History:The hospital was founded through a 1894 bequest from William F. Sayles, a businessman and philanthropist who owned mills in Saylesville, Rhode Island. Sayles' son, Frank A. Sayles, decided to built the original 30-bed hospital with the funds. Throughout the 20th century the size of the...
in Pawtucket. In the 1920s the village was home to a professional soccer team known as the Sayles Finishing Plant F.C.
Sayles Finishing Plant F.C.
Sayles Finishing Plant F.C. was a U.S. soccer team which existed briefly during the early 1920s.The team was sponsored by the Sayles Finishing Plant, a textile company owned by the Sayles Company and based out of Saylesville, Rhode Island. In 1920, it joined the Southern New England Soccer League,...