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Article: Warwick: History
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Warwick: History
Going Its Own Way
Warwick and the rest of Rhode Island started out as part of the western coast of Africa more than 500 million years ago.
Tectonic forces gradually moved what is now Rhode Island toward the North American continent where it collided and stuck, creating the Appalachian Mountains in the process. A series of ice ages changed the landscape over time through the approach and retreat of glaciers, which scraped a channel into the land that separated an archipelago from the mainland and filled what is now Narragansett Bay. About 3,000 years after the glaciers cleared out, humans moved in; evidence indicates that people have been living in the greater Warwick ...