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- ↑ "Burdickville: Rhode Island Blueways". exploreri.org. Retrieved May 7, 2023.
- ↑ "Pawcatuck River at Burdickville, RI". waterdata.usgs.gov. Retrieved May 7, 2023.
- ↑ Cole, Jim (May 5, 2009). Paddling Connecticut and Rhode Island: Southern New England's Best Paddling Routes. Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 978-0-7627-5773-2.
- ↑ Historial and Architectural Resources of Charlestown, Rhode Island: A Preliminary Report (1981), p. 22-23
- ↑ Report of Pawcatcuk River (May 14, 1929)
- ↑ (August 23, 1931). Rhody's One-Man Village: William Clark is "Mayor, Owner, Sole Winter Inhabitant of Burdickville - Population Doubles in Summer, The Providence Journal
U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Burdickville, Rhode Island
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