Product code: Rare 1970s store Watch Hill RI Rhode Island Beach & Bath Tag Badge Set
INVREF#CL41 store You are bidding on this set 1970s Watch Hill RI Rhode Island Beach & Bath Tag Badge Set. The tags were color coded for beach cabana and bath house usage on Watch Hill beach. See pics for details of this vintage set. Purchased at the estate of a long time Watch Hill memorabilia collector who's family owned farmland near Watch Hill going back multiple generations to the pre-Victorian era. Watch Hill is an affluent coastal village and census-designated place in the town of Westerly, Rhode Island. The population was 154 at the 2010census.It sits at the most-southwestern point in all of Rhode Island. It came to prominence in the late 19th and early 20th century as an exclusive summer resort, with wealthy families building sprawling Victorian-style "cottages" along the peninsula. Watch Hill is characterized by The New York Times as a community "with a strong sense of privacy and of discreetly used wealth," in contrast with "the overpowering castles of the very rich" in nearb.
INVREF#CL41 store You are bidding on this set 1970s Watch Hill RI Rhode Island Beach & Bath Tag Badge Set. The tags were color coded for beach cabana and bath house usage on Watch Hill beach. See pics for details of this vintage set. Purchased at the estate of a long time Watch Hill memorabilia collector who's family owned farmland near Watch Hill going back multiple generations to the pre-Victorian era. Watch Hill is an affluent coastal village and census-designated place in the town of Westerly, Rhode Island. The population was 154 at the 2010census.It sits at the most-southwestern point in all of Rhode Island. It came to prominence in the late 19th and early 20th century as an exclusive summer resort, with wealthy families building sprawling Victorian-style "cottages" along the peninsula. Watch Hill is characterized by The New York Times as a community "with a strong sense of privacy and of discreetly used wealth," in contrast with "the overpowering castles of the very rich" in nearb.