Drive north on Interstate 95 out of Connecticut and Hopkinton is the first Rhode Island town you reach. This map prints its two main villages, Hope Valley and Ashaway, with the Hope Valley Historic District and the Hopkinton City Historic District, Black Farm, the Upper Rockville Mill, the How Davey Preserve, the Yawgoog Heritage Center and North Road.
Hopkinton is in Washington County, on the Pawcatuck and Ashaway rivers along the Connecticut line.
KNOWOL made this map in 2026 from public survey records and gave it the look of an old atlas. The shaded relief around the How-Davey Preserve comes from United States Geological Survey elevation data. The streets come from Census Bureau files, down to North Road, and the Census Bureau puts the town at 44.1 square miles, 43.0 of them land. Black Farm and the Upper Rockville Mill are on the National Register of Historic Places, and we checked them against National Park Service records. Hopkinton had 8,398 people at the 2020 census.
A town of mill villages
Hopkinton was split off from Westerly and incorporated in 1757, and it’s named for Stephen Hopkins, who was governor of the colony at the time and later signed the Declaration of Independence. Almost all of its villages grew up around mills on its rivers, and several, such as Locustville, Moscow, Centerville and Wood River Iron Works, took their names from the mills they surrounded. Hope Valley in the north and Ashaway in the south are the two main villages today, and others include Barberville, Burdickville, Canonchet, Rockville and Woodville.
Prudence Crandall was born in 1803 in the area that’s now Hope Valley, and a granite marker to her stands in the village. In 1832, at her school in Canterbury, Connecticut, she admitted Sarah Harris, a young African American woman, creating what her page says can be considered the first known integrated classroom in the United States. When white families pulled their daughters out, she kept going and taught African American girls to become teachers, though her arrest, repeated trials and violence finally made it impossible to keep the school open safely. In 1995 Connecticut named her its State Heroine.
Hope Valley
Hope Valley is the town’s largest village and its main place for business. Hezekiah Carpenter arrived in 1770, dammed the Wood River and built small water mills, and the settlement was called Carpenter’s Mills. Textiles came in 1824, when Gardner Nichols and Russell Thayer bought the mills to card wool and finish cloth. The village page gives more than one story for the name; a town historian told the Providence Journal in 2008 that Nichols renamed it Hope Valley “because all of his hopes were centered” there. The old village of Locustville on Brushy Brook is now part of Hope Valley. The Hope Valley Historic District, 183 acres with 134 contributing buildings, joined the National Register in 2004.
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Names on this map
These names are printed on this map.
Places: Ashaway, Rockville, Hope Valley, Canonchet, Locustville, Woodville, Burdickville, Moscow, Bethel and Chase Hill.
Streets and roads: Pond Rd, Woody Hill Rd, Fairview Ave, Hill Rd, Foster Rd, Oak St, Chase Hill Rd, Maxson Hill Rd, High St and Alton Bradford Rd.
Hopkinton City and Ashaway
The town hall stands in Hopkinton City, the village at the junction of Route 3 with Woodville, Clark Falls, Townhouse and Old Rockville roads, which was once a major stagecoach stop. The Hopkinton City Historic District keeps about twenty houses, two church buildings, the town hall and the post office; its most imposing house is the Thurston-Wells House from around 1800, across from the Greek Revival First Baptist Church of 1836. In the 20th century the new Interstate 95 nearby eclipsed it. The district joined the National Register in 1974. Down in the south of town, Ashaway takes its name from the river that runs through it, which the Niantic and Mohegan called the Ashawague or Ashawaug, meaning “land in the middle” or “land between.” The name Ashawague River was still on a map of Rhode Island published in Philadelphia in 1832.
Rockville and the farms
The Upper Rockville Mill, at 332 Canonchet Road, has a three-and-a-half-story stone mill built in 1844-45 and a second building from the 1860s, with Wincheck Pond and parts of the old raceway. The Rockville Manufacturing Company that ran it was a major employer and landowner here for much of the 19th century, and textile firms kept it going until 1953. The Boy Scouts of America owned it briefly after that; the mill’s water rights affected the Scouts’ Camp Yawgoog. The Yawgoog Scout Reservation, founded in 1916, covers about 1,800 acres in Rockville, and its page calls it the fifth oldest Boy Scout camp in the United States.
Black Farm, also called the Isaac Collins Farm, lies between Woodville Alton Road and Wood Road. John Collins began working its 264 acres in 1710, and it was farmed for over 200 years; its gambrel-roofed main house dates to the late 1700s. The state bought the farm in 1991, the farmhouse lot went to private owners with a preservation easement, and the rest is conservation land. It joined the National Register in 1995, and the How Davey Preserve and the Yawgoog Heritage Center have their places on the sheet too.
This map of Hopkinton is a good fit for an office, library or den, and it can help teach children the geography and history of a river town of mill villages on the Connecticut line. KNOWOL made it in 2026 for people who call Hopkinton home, from Hope Valley to Ashaway, and it shows the town as it looks today. Zoom in on the preview above to explore the details, then click here to get your copy of the Hopkinton map.
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