Park Square, Rhode Island

By 1706 the area which is now Park Square contained the old Smithfield Meeting House, a Six Principle Baptist Church, which was built in a lot called the "Orchard," "just south of the old Rock Cliff farm.

"[1] It was deeded to the Smithfield Baptists by Jonathan Sprague in 1738 and then torn down in 1749 to use the timbers in constructing the Elder Ballou Meeting House in Cumberland.

[2] In the early twentieth century, Park Square was the site of Oak Knoll Farm, a large ice cream business which had been expanded by Charles Metcalf Smith.

[3] At that time, the Park Square area contained a diner, a gas station, an amusement park in North Smithfield, and in Woonsocket, a trolley barn and fairground, where an annual fair was founded in the 1860s by the Woonsocket Agricultural and Horticultural Society.

Park Square is currently home to many businesses, including Citizen's Bank (previously an Oldstone Bank), Park Square Urgent Care (previously a pharmacy and lunch counter), Park Square Florist, Park Square Wine & Spirits, Burger King, Wendy's, McDonald's (previously the site of Square One and Howard Johnson's), Pearl's Candy & Nuts, Ocean State Job Lot (previously Almac's until 1995), Super Stop & Shop (previously the site of a Mammoth Mart (later Mars until 1990), Star Market, and Kentucky Beef (later Burger Chef).