Thames Street, Rhode Island

The street takes its name from the River Thames in London, England, an area from which many of the early colonists migrated.

The northern part of Thames Street originates near the Common Burying Ground and passes through several blocks of what was in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries a Quaker settlement in the area near Easton's Point.

The southern part of Thames Street was historically home to a large Irish population in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

The second, known to locals as "Upper Thames", runs from West Marlborough to the city Post Office at the intersection of Memorial Boulevard and America's Cup Avenue.

The third portion is known as "Lower Thames" and runs from Perry Mill at the America's Cup Avenue intersection until the road's termination.