Tiverton

Tiverton is situated in the southeast portion of Rhode Island, in Newport County.  It is bounded on the North by the City of Fall River, MA on the East by Fall River and the Town of Westport, MA on the South by the town of Little Compton and on the West by the Sakonnet River and Mount Hope Bay.  The town is roughly rectangular in shape for the length in a North-South direction of about eight miles and the width of approximately four miles.  The total land area is 31.43 square miles. 

Early settlements came in 1631.  Tiverton was founded as a township by the General Court of Plymouth, MA in 1694 and incoporated as a Town in 1747.  Originally, the northern boundary went as far as the present center of Fall River and as late as 1862 part of it was taken back by Massachusetts. 

The town of Tiverton has several sites to provide recreational facilities for all age groups.  Including fort Barton Revolutionary site, which contains approximately 80 acres of nature trails and provides on of the finest views in the State of Rhode Island. 

Tiverton’s industry is about fourteen hundred acres are devoted to the farming of potatoes, vegetable seeds, apples and dairying.  Fishing is one of the more prominent industries.  About ten thousand acres in town are woodland but are not commercially worked.