Tiverton runs down the east side of the Sakonnet River, from North Tiverton on Mount Hope Bay down past Fogland. This map prints Tiverton Four Corners and North Tiverton, the Tiverton Four Corners Historic District and the Osborn-Bennett Historic District, the Cook-Bateman Farm, the Bourne Mill, the Joseph Hicks House, Fogland Beach, the Emilie Ruecker Wildlife Refuge and Fish Road.
Tiverton is in Newport County, across the Sakonnet River from Aquidneck Island.
KNOWOL made this map in 2026 from public survey records and gave it the look of an old atlas. The shaded relief around Fogland Beach and the Emilie Ruecker Wildlife Refuge comes from United States Geological Survey elevation data, and much of the town sits on a granite ridge that rises about 170 feet above the bay. The streets come from Census Bureau files, down to Fish Road, and the Census Bureau puts the town at 36.3 square miles, 29.4 of them land. The Joseph Hicks House and the Cook-Bateman Farm are on the National Register of Historic Places, and we checked them against National Park Service records. Tiverton had 16,359 people at the 2020 census.
A Massachusetts town that became Rhode Island
English colonists incorporated Tiverton in 1694 as part of Bristol County in the Province of Massachusetts Bay. The land had been home to the Pocasset, and after Plymouth Colony was folded into Massachusetts, the freemen here pushed to join Rhode Island instead. In 1746 a royal decree settled the long boundary fight, and Tiverton came to Rhode Island with Barrington, Bristol, Little Compton and Cumberland, effective January 27, 1747. Together with Little Compton, it’s separated from the rest of the state. Its northern end was set apart in 1856 as Fall River, Rhode Island, and in 1862 the U.S. Supreme Court placed both Fall Rivers in Massachusetts and fixed today’s state line near State Avenue.
During the Revolution, while the British held Aquidneck Island from December 1776 to October 1779, Tiverton was a refuge for Americans escaping the occupation and a mustering ground for the forces gathering to drive the British out. The earthworks of Fort Barton, built in 1777 to watch the main ferry crossing to the island, survive in a park at Lawton and Highland avenues. The fort is named for Lieutenant Colonel William Barton, who captured the British general Prescott in a midnight raid, and the ferry below it was a launching point for American troops in the Battle of Rhode Island in August 1778. Farming came first in Tiverton, with some fishing and boatbuilding, and until 1900 making menhaden oil from fish was one of its chief industries. Robert Gray, the merchant captain and explorer, and the architect Russell Warren are among the people its page lists.
Four Corners and Main Road
The Tiverton Four Corners Historic District is the old village center, stretched along Main Road on both sides of its crossing with East Road and Puncatest Neck Road. Its 50 acres hold sixteen historic buildings, most of them houses from the 1700s and early 1800s, along with the mill pond’s remains, the A. P. White Store and the Union Public Library. The library has operated on its site, at 3832 Main Road, almost continuously since 1820, though its Early Victorian building dates from 1868. The district joined the National Register in 1974.
Up Main Road, north of Route 24, the Osborn-Bennett Historic District keeps four houses along a road the first English settlers laid out in 1683. The Osborn family settled here in the 1700s and made their name as businessmen and lawyers. The Thomas Osborn Homestead at 1168 Main Road, a Federal house from about 1790, has the family cemetery on its land, and Judge Joseph Osborn’s Italianate house of about 1845 stands at 1188; the judge, its page says, is said to have been perhaps the family’s most distinguished member. The district joined the Register in 2006.
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Names on this map
These names are printed on this map.
Places: Tiverton Four Corners, North Tiverton, Eagleville, Bliss Corners, Grayville, Fogland, Sakonnet River, Sin and Flesh Brook and Nannaquaket Pond.
Streets and roads: Hayden Ave, Mark Dr, Beech Ave, Hurst Ln, Stafford Rd, Main Rd, Bulgarmarsh Rd, Bolduc Ln, Cornell Rd and Eight Rod Way.
Farms, mills and the shore
The Cook-Bateman Farm stands where Fogland, Puncatest Neck and Pond Bridge roads meet. John Cook bought the land in 1700, arrowheads and stone tools in its fields show that Native people lived here earlier, and only two families owned it for more than 200 years, until 1977. It reached its largest size, 200 acres, in the late 1700s and has 63 acres of rolling farmland today. The oldest part of the house dates from the 1730s or 1740s, and a high Second Empire mansard roof was added around 1870. It joined the National Register in 1979. Fogland Beach, on the Sakonnet River, is one of the town’s two beaches, with Grinnell’s Beach.
The Joseph Hicks House, at 494 Main Road, was known locally as “the Brick House” for its original brick side walls, and the Hicks family who owned it for many years were among the first settlers of the Tiverton area. It joined the National Register in 1979, but the house itself was torn down in the 1980s, and a store stands on the spot now. Up in North Tiverton, the Bourne Mill sits right on the Massachusetts line, with a very small part of it in Fall River. Its cotton mill buildings went up between 1881 and 1951, and the Bourne company had an unusual profit-sharing plan based on Jonathan Bourne’s years in whaling. After decades standing idle, the mill was turned into 166 apartments, finished in 2009, and it joined the Register in 2006. North Tiverton was also home in the 1920s and early 1930s to Fall River F.C., one of the most successful soccer teams of its era, which played at Mark’s Stadium, one of the earliest soccer-specific stadiums in the United States.
This map of Tiverton is made for an office, library or den, and it can help teach children the geography and history of a river town that started out in Massachusetts. KNOWOL made it in 2026 for people who call Tiverton home, from Tiverton Four Corners to North Tiverton, 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 Tiverton map.
Sources
- Tiverton, Rhode Island, Wikipedia
- Fort Barton Site, Wikipedia
- Tiverton Four Corners Historic District, Wikipedia
- Osborn-Bennett Historic District, Wikipedia
- Cook-Bateman Farm, Wikipedia
- Joseph Hicks House, Wikipedia
- Bourne Mill (Tiverton, Rhode Island), Wikipedia
- Tiverton (CDP), Rhode Island, Wikipedia
