Quonochontaug, Rhode Island

Quonochontaug is composed of three small beach communities in Charlestown, Rhode Island, USA. Located between two salt ponds, Ninigret Pond and Quonochontaug Pond, and their respective barrier beaches, the communities of West Beach, Central Beach, and East Beach house several hundred mostly summer residents. Today, many houses are available as summer rentals. Quonochontaug was a busy and fashionable resort of small hotels and boarding houses in the 19th Century, continuing up until the Great Hurricane of 1938.^{[citation needed]} Blue Shutters Beach, where fast food can be purchased, is located at the end of East Beach Road in Quonochontaug. To the east of Blue Shutters an unpaved road leads to the entrance of the Ninigret National Wildlife Refuge. The areas was listed as a census-designated place in the 2010 census.

In popular culture

• In the X-Files season 3 finale (Talitha Cumi), Mulder gets a call from AD Skinner, that his mother has been admitted to Quonochontaug hospital. Mulder's family owns a summer house in Quonochontaug. The scenes shot there though don't look like Quonochontaug. But Mulder does pronounce “Quonochontaug” perfectly.

External links

• Quonochontaug East Beach Association