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Would you like to purchase a locally themed T-shirt from our online Book and Gift Shop? - Click on the LINK to see our current selection.
Online Book and Gift Shop
You can now purchase items from our online Book and Gift Shop online. Just click on the BUY NOW button and enter your information. Please be sure to be specific with regard to the item you are ordering in the Reason for Donation field on the second page. If ordering a book please include the title, if ordering a t-shirt please specify which one as well as the color, size(s), and your mailing address The price of the various items are shown below and will be delivered to your house (if you are local) or sent to you via U.S. Mail.
Prices shown below are for items that are picked up at our offices. If requesting the item to be delivered to you through the U.S. mail, please add $8.00 to cover the cost of packaging and postage.
If you wish to avoid shipping charges, all items can be purchased directly from the Foster Preservation Society Office located in the basement of the Foster Town House at 180 Howard Hill Road, Foster, Rhode Island, click here for directions. We are in the office on Wednesday mornings between 9:00 am until 12:00 noon.
T shirts and Other Gifts
Jerimoth Hill T-Shirt
Grey shirts with forest green lettering.
Available in S, M, L, XL, 2X, and 3X.
$20.00
There are a limited number of rust colored shirts still available.
Mt. Hygeia Schoolhouse T-Shirt
Various colors (grey, yellow, orange, blue, and purple) with black or black and white image and text.
Available in S, M, L, XL, 2X, and 3X.
$20.00
Swamp Meadow Bridge
T-Shirt
Grey with black image and text.
Available in S, M, L, and XL.
$20.00
Save Mt. Hygeia School bag
Tan canvas bag with black image and text.
$15.00
Windsor Blacksmith Shop T-Shirt
Various colors with black image/text.
Available in S, M, L, and XL.
$20.00
Books - please note that our books are listed in alphabetical order by title.
Celebration - 1981
Album of old photographs compiled by the Foster Bicentennial Committee.
$5.00
By My Kin: Stories of Foster
Collected by Margery I. Matthews
Historical narratives and town trivia.
$5.00
Foster: Images of America
This book, released in February 2012, contains many historic photographs of the Town of Foster taken through the years.
$24.99
Foster and the Patriot's Dream
by Sandra Olson, Margery I. Matthews, Marcia M. Bowden,
and Elizabeth Olausen
Foster's contribution to the Patriots' cause in the War of Independence.
$5.00
It Was a Good Life
Reminiscences of Foster by Members of the Foster Preservation Society.
$5.00
Notes on a House in Westconnaug: Its People and History
by Edward H. Balfour
$12.00
Old Home Days Souvenir Program from 1981
$1.00
The One Room Schoolhouse
Stories and vignettes about Foster's one room schoolhouses, including school rules and excerpts from Superintendent's reports between 1878-1908.
Originally published by the Ladies Auxiliary of The Foster Center Volunteer Fire Company.
$5.00
Peleg's Last Word: The Story of the Foster Woolen Manufactory
The legend of Peleg Walker and the Ramtail Mill.
$5.00
A Rhode Island Rule Book (hardcover)
by Leah Inman Lapham c. 1939 A reprint of a Cookbook of Historical Recipes & Cures.
NOT CURRENTLY AVAILABLE
Stores in Foster: 19th - 21st Century
Pamphlet produced by the Foster Preservation Society.
$1.00
This Finnish Episode: Recalling the Finns in Foster, Rhode Island and its Surrounding Areas
NOT CURRENTLY AVAILABLE
Maps
Maps of Foster
(BLACK AND WHITE)
Dates available: 1799, 1862, 1870, 1895.
These maps are each printed on a sheet of heavy paper which is 12 inches wide by 18 inches tall.
$5.00 each
Map of Foster
(COLOR)
Dated: 1870
This map is printed on a sheet of heavy paper which is 12 inches wide by 18 inches tall.
$5.00
Videos
Barns of Foster
DVD produced by the Foster Preservation Society (Aug 2010).
$10.00
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