Peace Dale (also spelled Peacedale) is a village in the town of South Kingstown, Rhode Island, United States.

Around 1804, Hazard reputedly pioneered the use of carding machines to process wool in Rhode Island.

After an 1845 fire destroyed one of the mill buildings,[3] the brothers built new facilities, including expanded hydropower systems and a fireproof stone factory.

In 1856 Rowland Hazard II, an amateur architect, designed several new buildings in Peace Dale, including a new stone weaving mill and a stone building located across from the mills that housed offices, a store, the village post office, and a public hall.

Over the next several decades he influenced the construction and design of numerous additional buildings, accounting for more than half of the built environment of modern Peace Dale.