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Quonset Point-Davisville Records Naval base, North Kingstown, R.I. Records, 1939-1947 Size: 3.5 linear feet Catalog number: MSS 117 Processed circa 1972, inventory circa 1993 ©Rhode Island Historical Society Manuscripts Division |
Scope and content:
This collection consists mostly of correspondence, lists, legal documents, specifications and government contracts for the creation of the Quonset Point Naval Base. The last four boxes are photos and plat maps of the properties taken, including photos of outhouses and interiors as well as fronts of houses, taken during the winter.
An undated bulletin issued to the first women workers in the plant calls these workers “the fore-runner towards the success of women replacing men in our effort to win this huge undertaking that our country is engaged in.” It offers four rules for behavior, including the suggestion that “it is necessary, for your own welfare, that you act, at all times, with decorum.”
Provenance:
These records were donated by Stuart G. Wallace in 1972. The undated bulletin to women workers was purchased from A & D Antiques in 2002.
Inventory:
Folder 1Acquisition Status Sheets
2 Correspondence, 1939-1947
3 Accounts
4 Names and Addresses of Owners
5 Names & Addresses, General
6 General Property Acquisition
7 South Kingstown (not Taken) Deeds
8 Cemetery Relocation-Correspondence, 1940
9 Cemetery Relocation-Names and Locations
10 Cemetery Relocation-Taking
11 Cemetery Relocation-History and Memorial
12 Cemetery Relocation-Correspondence, 1942-1943
13 Cemetery Relocation-Correspondence, 1941
14 Quonset Point, Cole Farm-Correspondence & Deed
15 Quonset Point, lists, 1940
16 Quonset Point-Taking, 1939
17 Quonset Point-Correspondence, 1940-41
18 Willow Point-Correspondence, 1940-1943
19 Willow Point-Individual Parcels
20 Willow Point-Eviction lists
21 Willow Point
22 Omaha, Inc. Correspondence, lists, evaluation
23 Omaha, Inc. Description, Taking, 1941
24 Dean's Correspondence, Description, 1941
25 Quonset Point, Dean's Taking, 1941
Box 2
Folder 26contracts-lists
27 Contract 4175
28 Contract 6172-synthetic training building
29 Contract 6179-rec building
30 Contract 6244-school & quarters
31 Contract 6245-2 storehouse
32 Contract 6307-modify barracks
33 Contract 6349-addition to sub stattion
34 Contract 6447-Access road
35 Contract 6469-ammunition Storage
36 Contract 6473-removal of rock
37 Contract 6505-modifications on ramp
38 Contract 6702-training swimming pool
39 Contract 6754-barracks
40 Contract 6919-huts & hangers
41 Contract 6929-moving machine gun target
42 Contract 6963-paint spray building
43 Contract 7112-removal of ramp
44 Contract 7263-addition to bachelors quarters
45 Contract 7406-heating
46 Contract 7529-paving
47 Contract 7668-Building for gunnery
48 Contract 7669-Heating hangers
49 Contract 8006-clearing land
50 Contract 8011-Celestial Navigation Trainer
51 Contract 8023-Heating facilities
52 Contract 8145-Illumination of the pier
53 Contract 8243-training swimming pool
54 Contract 8496-misc. buildings
55 Contract 8660-Sprinkler Systems for warehouses
56 Contract 8675-Records storage building
57 Contract 8789-Bachelor's Quarters
58 Contract 8819-Swimming Pool
59 9084 Contract-Sidewalk, Guardrail, drainage
60 Contract 9395-Commissary Store
Box 3
Volume 61Public Works Data-Buildings
62 Building Accessories-specs
63 Quonset Hut-specs
64 U.S. Navy steel arch rib utility..
65 U.S. Navy Steel Arch rib utility...Jan. 1944
66 Stran-steel arch utility building-instructions for erecting
Folder67Fire Telephone Locations
68 Building Numbers, 1947
69 Building Transferred, June 30, 1947
70 Plant Account Report, June 3, 1947
71 Building Index, Nov. 5, 1945
Box 4
Volume 72Buildings-specs
73 Buildings-specs
74 Public Works data-buildings
Box 5
Folder 75Wells for water supply correspondence, 1942-1943
76 Wells for Water supply-owners' names and addresses (East Greenwich)
77 Wells for water supply taking (E. Greenwich)
78 Davisville, correspondence, 1942
79 Davisville, corresp. 1943
80 Davisville-parcels & description
81 Davisville-correspondence, 1944-45
82 Davisville-Taking
83 Davisville-Camp Ave.-Corresp. 1942
84 Davisville-Camp Ave.-corresp. 1943
85 Davisville-Camp Avenue-correspondence, 1944
86 Davisville-Parcels
87 Davisville-deeds
88 Camp Avenue-Land Descriptions
89 Davisville-Camp Avenue taking
90 Electric transmission line & water easement - correspondence, 1940-45
91 Electric transmission line & water easement
92 Electric transmission line & water easement - descriptions
93 Electric transmission line & water easement - condemnation amendment
94 Fresh water line correspondence
95 Fresh water line addresses
96 Fresh water line properties
97 Fresh water line, East Greenwich, easements
98 Fresh water line appraisal
99 Fresh Water line taking
Box 6
Folder 100Davisville-Austin Farm
101Davisville-Corey Farm-Correspondnece, 1941
102Davisville-Corey Farm-descriptions, deeds, options
103Davisville-Crowell lot-Hunt cemetery-correspondence, 1942-1943
104Davisville-Hunt cemetery-names of graves
105Davisville-Crowell lot-description & deed
106Davisville-Crowell Lot-title abstract
107Davisville-electric transmission line - correspondence, 1942-1944
108Davisville-electric tranmssion line-owners' names & addresses
109Davisville-electric transmission line-individual parcels
110Davisville-electric transmission line, appraisal, 1942
111Davisville-electric transmission line-taking
112Davisville-correpondence, 1942
113Davisville-correspondence, 1943
114Davisville-correspondence, 1945-1946
115Davisville-owners list & compensation
116Davisville-house contents
117Davisville-Parcels & Buildings
118Davisville-contracts
119Davisville-taking
Box 7
Folder 120 Davisville-Correspondence, 1942
121 Davisville-Correspondence, 1943
122 Davisville-Correspondence, 1944
123 Davisville-Correspondence, 1945
124 Davisville-Correspondence, 1946
125 Davisville-description
126 Davisville-buildings
127 Davisville-names of owners
128 Davisville-leases
129 Davisville-taking
Box 8
Folder 130 Outlying fields, fieldbook (lists only)
131Outlying fields, Charlestown-correspondence
132Outlying fields, Charlestown-owners
133 outlying fields, Charlestown-deeds
134 Outlying fields, Charlestown-descriptions
135 Outlying fields, Charlestown-deeds
136 Outlying fields, Charlestown-taking
137 Outlying fields, Charlestown, houses retained, moved
138 Outlying fields, Charlestown-houses-bids
139 Outlying Fields, Charlestown-Salvage contracts
140 Outlying Field, Westerly-Correspondence
141 Outlying Field, Westerly-descriptions
142 Outlying Field, Westerly-Parcels
143 Outlying Field, Westerly-deeds
144 Little Comfort Island -correspondence
145 Little Comfort Island-parcels
146 Little Comfort Island -leases
147 Little Comfort Island-deeds
148 Martha's Vineyard-correspondence, 1943 (rehoused in box 12)
149 Davisville-Martha's Vineyard Parcels, 1944-45 (rehoused in box 12)
Box 9 Properties-Davisville 196
Folder 150 Ackroyd, Julius A.
151 Albro, James G.
152 Andrews, Lawrence
153 Andrews, Theodore S.
154 Arnold, Edwin T.
155 Ballou, Caroline E.
156 Ballou, David S.
157 Battey, Lauriston C.
158 Bickford, Herbert A.
159 Brahoney, Luke J.
160 Brown, Aleck L.
161 Brown, Ginerva B.
162 Briggs, Frank G.
163 Brown, Douglas E.
164 Cook, Rhodes A.
165 Corley, John T.
166 Curry, Thomas M.
167 De Mello, Manuel
168 DesGranges, Cloyde
169 Ferguson, J. Cecil
170 Frigon, Ernest V.
171 Gravatt, Annie
172 Grinnell, Russell
Box 10 Properties-Davisville 196-
Folder 173 Harrington, Mildred
174 Harrop, Thomas
175 Hathaway, Edgar J.
176 Hearn, Leona M.
177 Hemingway, George J.
178 Hendrick, Susan B.
179 Hendricks, Nathaniel G.
180 Hitty Corner School house
181 Hobson, William A.
182 Hopkins, Clara D.
183 Johnson, Fritz
184 Joslin, Charles T.
185 Joslin, Hannah T.
186 Joslin, Oliver
187 Kent, Vera M.
188 Kenyon, George
189 Ketelle, Clifford & Herald
190 Ketelle, Edward
191 Ketelle, Herman B.
192 Ketelle, Norman & Doris L.
193 Ketelle, Samuel
194 Ketelle, Walter D.
195 Kidney, Harvey
196 Knight, Albert W.
197 Knight, Arthur E.
198 Lemner, Sarah M.
199 Lewis, Harry R.
200 Lister, Benjamin T.
201 McKenna, James T.
202 Mather, Walter P.
203 Maynard, Lionel
204 Mellor, Harrie & Ferne
205 Michand, Telesphore
206Mitchell, Charles
207Moran, Frederick V.
208 Nichols, Frank
209 Northrup, Nettie C.
Box 11 Properties-Davisville 196
Folder 210 Olsson, Klas R.
211 Pisani, Joseph
212 Pierce, William H.
213 Place, Fred N.
214 Place, John R.
215 Preston, Florence
216 Rathbun, Elmer J.
217Robinson, Frank E.
218 Rathbun, John A.
219 Rathbun, Marcus
220 Rathbun, William A.
221 Robinson, Georgina M.
222 Rogoski, William
223 Rose, Eugene A.
224 Rose, Pearle J.
225 Sands, Richard
226 Saunders, Ruth M.P.
227 Saute, Camille T.
228Shearman, Winfield Scott
229 Shepard, Clinton E.
230 Shepard, Velna B.
231 Shippee Charles H.
232 Shippee, Edward F.
233 Siiro, Raymond
234 Smith, A.E.
235 Smith, Margaret
236 Spencer, Alfred E.
237 Sumner, Louis A.
238Sweet, Foster
Box 11 Properties-Davisville 196
Folder 239 Tarbox, Earl E.
240 Tarbox, Harold
241 Tarbox, Orman E.
242 Tebo, Roy James
243Thomas, Frank W.
244 Tibbitts, J. Gifford
245 Tibbitts, John T.
246Tillinghast, Lester W.
247 Tillinghast, William H.
248Tisdale, Hazel E.
249 Tisdale, Ira M.
250 Vaughn, Harry
251 Vaughn, S. Albert
252 Webster, Nathan S.
253Weindel, Leonard F.
254Welsh, James
255 Wheeler, Harrie M.
257Whitford, Clark
258 Wilcox, Norman P.
Box 12
Bulletin to first women workers, undated (during World War II)
"Quonset-Naval Auxiliary Air Facility-Davisville, Charlestown," undated (technical report and project history)
Folder 148 Martha's Vineyard-correspondence, 1943 (rehoused in box 12)
Folder 149 Davisville-Martha's Vineyard Parcels, 1944-45 (rehoused in box 12)
Subjects:
Davisville, R.I.
East Greenwich, R.I.
Exeter, R.I.
Little Comfort Island, R.I.
Martha’s Vineyard, Mass.
South Kingstown, R.I.
United States. Navy.
West Greenwich, R.I.
Westerly, R.I.
Women and war - Rhode Island
World War, 1939-1945 - War work
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