Wickaboxet Management Area

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Wickaboxet State Forest is a 678 acre state management area on Plain Meeting House Road in West Greenwich, Rhode Island. [1] It was founded in 1932. [2]

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References

  1. "Wickaboxet Management Area | West Greenwich, RI 02835".
  2. Rhode Island: A Guide to the Smallest State, (Federal Writers' Project, Rhode Island, 1937) p. 135 https://books.google.com/books?isbn=1603540385

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