Quonochontaug, Rhode Island

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Quonochontaug is composed of three small beach communities in Charlestown, Rhode Island. Located between two salt ponds and their respective barrier beaches, the communities of West Beach, Central Beach, and East Beach house several hundred mostly summer residents. It was a busy and fashionable resort of small hotels and boarding houses in the 19th Century, continuing up until the Great Hurricane of 1938. Quonochontaug means "Home of the Blackfish".^{[citation needed]}

[edit] External links

• Quonochontaug East Beach Association

Coordinates: 41°20′08″N, 71°42′30″W