![]() ![]() Just beyond the Commons Lunch is the library, where you can get to a computer. ![]() ![]() 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. ![]() Little Comptons Newest Restaurant & Tavern Open For Takeout Great Food & Entertainment. 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. 90 Pottersville Rd, Little Compton, RI 02837. Hollywood tried to persuade the townspeople to film its raunchy "Witches of Eastwick" but they recoiled and chased the filmmakers off to Massachusetts. In few other places can a nonagenarian comepon poke trinkets, trifles and detritus and some of it older than he.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. 7 RI Schools Among Money’s Best Colleges In America 2023 Coventry, RI NewsSpotted Lanternfly Reaches Adult Stage In RI: Start Squishing Tiverton-Little Compton, RI NewsFireworks Near Me. For $1, I also picked up four-ounce block labeled "Great Face Soap." Yvonne found a pair of sterling earrings for $25.60 and I bought Joseph Alsop's biography of Franklin Roosevelt for $2.40. It is stacked with domestic jetsam and flotsam, including a mirrored pine medicine cabinet for $25, jewelry, nearly all costume, stacks of China, books and magazines. Also, nothing in the store is new, though little is bona fide antique either. Just one car and a pickup fit in the parking lot. Reopened three years ago, its tenant storekeeper's merchandise is as varied as a Walmart's, although it will take a while to catch up in traffic. 4.9 (21 reviews) Free cancellation up to 14 days before check-in. Beautiful Ocean View of Secluded Cove and Rhode Island Sound. Now, happily, Adamsville has reclaimed its status as site of the nation's oldest general store, if not the oldest in continuous service. Little Compton: ocean views, 5 min walk to beach, great big yard, four bedrooms. The closing of Gray's left Adamsville with only one monument, a granite statue of a chicken, the Rhode Island Red, the source of all kitchen tables of the brown egg and Little Compton' claim, back then, as the "poultry Capitol of the World." This was a sad and humbling moment for minuscule Adamsville, an appendage of Little Compton, RI, no metropolis itself with just 3,500 people. One family, presumably named Gray, owned it for 91 years until another family, the Waites, took it on and held until 2012, when sixth generation Grayton Waite died and his heir, a son, closed it. George Washington wasn't yet president, and the flag had just 13 stars. Opening in 1788, Gray's General Store in Adamsville, RI, was the oldest, after 224 years and by all credible accounts, general store in the United States. ![]()
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