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3 places in town are on the National Register. Below: 5 old photos and papers from 1895 on and old-book passages.
The Pascoag post office opened in 1847, the earliest record of the town by name.
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From Wikipedia’s history of Pascoag.
The name of Burrillville's principal village, Pascoag, named after the Pascoag River upon which it is located, probably derives from an Algonquian Indian root. The Nipmuc word for snake was rendered "askug" by Roger Williams in his A Key Into the Language of America, and "askoog" by the Reverend John Eliot in his Algonquian translation of the Bible.
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Passages that mention Pascoag, cut from the printed page as they were published.
portunity of throwing off their allegiance. The Kipmuck river, formed by the union of three streams, was named after them. The Pascoags were another tribe that inhabited this section, and the village of Pascoag is named in remembrance of them. Tradition says " coag " meant snake, and as there were formerly a great quantity of snakes here, wherever they went they were accustomed to say " passcoag." " Black Hut " was the name of an old Indian wigwam that was in this locality. Now instead of the roar of the beast and the
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The Free-will Baptist church of Pascoag was the first society of this denomination organized in the state. Elder Colby gathered a church membership here and organized the society December 15th, 1812. On February 11th, 1813, was held the first meeting, and the first Free-will Baptist quarterly meeting held in the state was at the old Burrillville meeting house on the 12th of March, 1814. Elder Colby was the active pastor of this church for a number of years, and until failing health caused his resignation that he might go south for
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The Pascoag post office opened in 1847, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).
What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.
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c. 1908
c. 2005