Gaspee Point is a small peninsula on the west side of the southern reaches of the Providence River in Warwick, Rhode Island.

[1] Gaspee Point was the site of one of the first acts in the American Revolution when the Royal Navy's HMS Gaspee was grounded there by American patriots on June 9, 1772 in what became known as the Gaspée affair.

The Gaspee was a revenue schooner locally detested for its enforcement of the unpopular Navigation Acts.

Patriots boarded and burned the ship during the night of June 9, 1772 in an act of open rebellion against the colonial-era governance of the British Empire.

[2] This article about a Registered Historic Place in Kent County, Rhode Island is a stub.