Hanton City

Hanton City is a colonial era ghost town in Smithfield, Rhode Island.

The remains of Hanton City consist of several stone foundations, a burial site, a defunct dam apparently used for irrigation, and a dilapidated scattering of stone walls, typifying it as a standard small New England farming community. The entire site is completely overgrown, making it nearly impossible to locate when any vegetation is present.

At the time of its habitation, the small settlement was extremely isolated from the main town of Smithfield. For this reason, several theories have been posited in regards to its raison d'être.

The most likely theory is that those who founded Hanton City were Loyalists: colonists who remained loyal to the king of England during the American Revolution. It is uncertain whether these Loyalists were forced to live in exile by the historically fiercely independent Rhode Islanders or whether they chose of their own volition to form an enclave of the politically like-minded. From Wikipedia.

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[vandalsmx]

Honestly I didn't know about it until i read about it on Wikipedia a few months ago.

[vtek189]

i did find some foundations they are way back in the woods but i wad able to drive on a stone path to get there

[vandalsmx]

Cool, i will have to check it out again sometime.

[planetrockford]

@mikeT1100 What massacre was that?

[vtek189]

thanks i heard about the farmer he supposedly chased my friends with a shotgun lol

[mikeT1100]

its towards the end of bishop hill road u can see the farm perfect from the road (its a slaughter house now i think ironic huh?) but behind the farm in the woods is like a small village where the massacre had taken place. its a real ghost town. good luck trying to get it though the guy who owns the farm is protective about it

[vtek189]

do you know where exactly the blood farm is? i live in cranston but i could never find it

[madmacabre]

I was there last april. Its a shame they took a huge chunk out of the middle of the woods to develope ugly buildings. Go see it while it lasts.

[mikeT1100]

theres places like that with stone wall and everything all over RI. they marked the old property lines in colonial times. theres a bunch in the woods next to me. and in johnston theres a place called bloods farm where a massacure happened a long time ago, its suppose to be haunted

[richmFTW]

looks cool maybe i'll go check it out. i never knew where exactly it was but i did read about it in a book about haunted places in RI.