Hopkinton, RI

Hopkinton is a town in Washington County, Rhode Island, United States. The 2020 census counted 8,398 residents. Hopkinton is named after Stephen Hopkins, a signer of the Declaration of Independence who was governor of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations when the town was partitioned from Westerly and incorporated in 1757. Hopkinton once featured a number of industrial villages, such as Locustville, Moscow, Centerville, and Wood River Iron Works, each being named after the mill which they surrounded. The through line in Hopkinton is the way its history and present-day settings remain visible on the same map. Hopkinton makes the most sense through those concrete details, with its history still visible in the settings people use today. Hopkinton is on the Pawcatuck River and the Ashaway River on the Connecticut border.