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The RHS archives has a resource that I find unendingly interesting. It’s a book listing (almost) all of the cemeteries in Richmond. At...

My name is Kally and I love history. I can, and very often do, waste a whole day wandering around a historical place, daydreaming about...

Save the date: 401Gives  is April 1,2024! 401 Gives  is an online fundraising campaign  designed to bring a collective voice to the...

Bell School is looking beautiful after the recent renovation- re-siding and new paint.  You'd never know she's nearly 200 years old!

RHS looks forward to taking part in the Regional History Fair at the Westerly Library on September 14. Learn more about our Society, or...

We are excited that work on the Bell School Museum has begun! RHS applied for and was accepted for a Champlin Grant to re-side the...

We are pleased to announce that the Samuel Clarke Farm Open House, originally planned to take place in May 2020 but quashed by Covid, is...

On Sunday, May 1st, 2022 at 9:30 AM we will offer a historical cemetery hike including three cemeteries, old cellar holes, wildflowers,...

Please join the Richmond Historic Cemetery Committee on Sunday, April 24 at 12:00 noon as we bring RH Cemetery #37 back to its original...

(Originally published by Elizabeth Mowchan, January 29, 2018) We are fortunate for the generosity of Clark Library in allowing us to use...

(Originally published August 3, 2018) The question was posed recently on our Facebook page: “A mystery…Who is “Aunt Kate”, the artist who...

If the flag is out, we're open! Come see the Lost Mills of South County exhibit Saturday, August 3 or August 10.

This handsome hand painted wooden sign, which used to hang on the outside of the Town Hall before it was renovated in 1999, apparently...

A CAROLINA HISTORY MUSEUM? The original Richmond Clerk’s and Probate Court Office (1908 to 1966), owned by the Society, occupied a small...

The Richmond Historical Society expresses deepest sympathy to the family of Betty Mowchan. Betty was a long-time member and active...

The Bell School Museum is open (usually!) on Saturdays during the summer from 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM. Come see the current exhibit on Lost...

MINUTES OF THE 2019 RHS MEETING The annual meeting of the Richmond Historical Society was held June 20, 2019 at Clark Memorial Library....

Patricia Ann (Smith) Millar 1936 - 2019 Patricia Ann (Smith) Millar, of Richmond, Rhode Island, succumbed to Parkinson's dementia on...

Interested in your family history? If you are or have been working on it and have found yourself stuck... We can help. The genealogy...