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Rare 1970s Watch Hill RI Rhode Island Beach & Bath Tag Badge Set

$ 92.4

Availability: 92 in stock
  • Region of Origin: Rhode Island
  • Condition: Used

    Description

    INVREF#CL41
    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 nearby Newport