Pawtuxet is the name of a river in

Rhode Island Rhode Island (, like ''road'') is a state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States. It is the smallest U.S. state by area and the seventh-least populous, with slightly fewer than 1.1 million residents as of 2020, but it ...

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. A number of things have been named after the river.

Places

Pawtuxet River The Pawtuxet River, also known as the Pawtuxet River Main Stem and the Lower Pawtuxet, is a river in the U.S. state of Rhode Island. It flows U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map, ac ...

, a river in Rhode Island, USA *

Cranston, Rhode Island Cranston, once known as Pawtuxet, is a city in Providence County, Rhode Island. The official population of the city in the 2020 United States Census was 82,934, making it the second largest in the state. The center of population of Rhode Island ...

, a city originally named Pawtuxet *

Pawtuxet Village Pawtuxet Village is a section of the New England cities of Warwick and Cranston, Rhode Island. It is located at the point where the Pawtuxet River flows into the Providence River and Narragansett Bay. History Pawtuxet means "Little Falls" in ...

, a village in the city of Cranston

Ships

* , a gunboat built during the American Civil War * , a revenue cutter built during the American Civil War * , a class of revenue cutters built during the American Civil War

Other

* Rhodes-on-the Pawtuxet, an historic building in Cranston, Rhode Island * Pawtuxet Valley Dyeing Company, a manufacturing facility in Coventry, Rhode Island {{disambiguation, geo, ship