Summit is a village 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 ...

. Summit developed as a railroad village near

Greene, Rhode Island Greene is an unincorporated village and census-designated place in the western part of the town of Coventry, Rhode Island, United States. As of the 2010 census it had a population of 888. It is east of the Connecticut border and the same dist ...

with "half-dozen white

clapboard Clapboard (), also called bevel siding, lap siding, and weatherboard, with regional variation in the definition of these terms, is wooden siding of a building in the form of horizontal boards, often overlapping. ''Clapboard'' in modern Americ ...

houses

hich Ij ( fa, ايج, also Romanized as Īj; also known as Hich and Īch) is a village in Golabar Rural District, in the Central District of Ijrud County, Zanjan Province, Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also ...

center around a church, a library, and a store."Gayle Goddard-Taylor, Saving Summit: Vintage church and library almost abandoned, R.I. April 22, 2001 http://americanprofile.com/articles/saving-summit-rhode-island/ The original Summit Baptist Church building was constructed in 1862 and served the congregation until a new building was constructed nearby in 2001. The Coventry Historical Society now owns the old church building and maintains exhibits at the nearby Summit library. The Summit General Store, dating to 1888, is still in business.

References

Villages in Kent County, Rhode Island Coventry, Rhode Island Census-designated places in Kent County, Rhode Island Providence metropolitan area Villages in Rhode Island Census-designated places in Rhode Island {{RhodeIsland-geo-stub