Anthony (previously known as Greenville and The Quaker Village) is a village along Route 117 within the town of

Coventry, Rhode Island Coventry is a town in Kent County, Rhode Island, United States. The population was 35,688 at the 2020 census and is part of the . Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of . of it is land and of it ...

near the villages of Washington and Quidnick on the southwestern banks of the

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(Flat River). The village comprises "Anthony, Arnold, Boston, Mapledale, Meeting, Taft, Washington and Laurel Avenue."Andrew D. Boisvert, "Coventry Roots: Anthony," ''Coventry Patch'', March 18, 2011 http://coventry.patch.com/articles/coventry-roots-anthony Previously, Anthony was known as "Greenville" and "The Quaker Village." In the eighteenth century, the Greene Family were early owners of the land and gave their name to the village where they operated a gristmill, forge, and sawmill. Many of the village residents, including the Greene family, were

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, members of the Society of Friends and part of the Greenwich Monthly Meeting, attending meetings at the Quaker Meeting House on Meeting Street, which was used for services from 1825 to 1915. The building is now a club house. Anthony was established and renamed in 1805 by William and Richard Anthony who built a

textile mill Textile Manufacturing or Textile Engineering is a major industry. It is largely based on the conversion of fibre into yarn, then yarn into fabric. These are then dyed or printed, fabricated into cloth which is then converted into useful goods ...

in the village as part of the Coventry Manufacturing Company.Paul T. Hellmann, ''Historical Gazetteer Of The United States'' (Taylor & Francis, 2005), pg. 955 By 1811 another cotton mill was built and later the Coventry Manufacturing Company operated in the area as well. The

General Nathanael Greene Homestead The General Nathanael Greene Homestead, also known as Spell Hall, is a historic house at 20 Taft Street in Coventry, Rhode Island.The General's first name is Nathanael, but the National Historic Landmarks program listing for him misspells his fi ...

is located near the village. The historic heart of the village, a centered on Washington Street roughly between Sandy Bottom Road and Fairview Avenue and extending as far south as the

Nathanael Greene Homestead The General Nathanael Greene Homestead, also known as Spell Hall, is a historic house at 20 Taft Street in Coventry, Rhode Island.The General's first name is Nathanael, but the National Historic Landmarks program listing for him misspells his fi ...

, was named to the

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in 2010 as the Anthony Village Historic District.

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