Furnace Hill Brook Historic and Archeological District

	Furnace Hill Brook Historic and Archeological District
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
	U.S. Historic district
Nearest city	Cranston, Rhode Island
Built	1800
Architect	Unknown
Architectural style	Greek Revival
NRHP reference No.	80000097
Added to NRHP	August 6, 1980

The Furnace Hill Brook Historic and Archeological District in a historic district in Cranston, Rhode Island.

The site features archaeological industrial remains dating from the early 19th century, as well as a series of prehistoric Native American settlements, dating from the Late Archaic to the Early Woodland periods.^[2] One major locus of the Native settlements, a knoll at the confluence of Furnace Hill Brook, Church Brook, and Meshanticut Brook, was destroyed in 1967 by the construction of a highway cloverleaf (the interchange between I-295 and Rhode Island Route 37), although salvage archaeology was successful in obtaining some artifacts.^[3] Further up Furnace Hill Brook are the remains of an iron foundry established in 1812.

The site was added to the National Register of Historic Places on August 6, 1980.^[1]

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^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. January 23, 2007.
^ "Bulletin of the Archaeological Society of Connecticut, Number 61 (1998)" (PDF). Archaeological Society of Connecticut. Retrieved 2014-08-01.
^ "Bulletin of the Massachusetts Archaeological Society, Vol. 30 No. 2 (January 1969)" (PDF). University of Bridgewater. Retrieved 2014-08-01.

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[nris-1] "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. January 23, 2007.

[2] "Bulletin of the Archaeological Society of Connecticut, Number 61 (1998)" (PDF). Archaeological Society of Connecticut. Retrieved 2014-08-01.

[3] "Bulletin of the Massachusetts Archaeological Society, Vol. 30 No. 2 (January 1969)" (PDF). University of Bridgewater. Retrieved 2014-08-01.

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