Brief Prehistory
Brief Prehistory
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Dark Red is 1757 to modern day Westerly, RI, and Pink 1669-1737 Westerly, R.I., otherwise now nicknamed as Greater Westerly.
In 1669, the Town of Westerly Rhode Island was founded in the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, incorporating the modern day area of Richmond, Charlestown, Hopkinton, Westerly, and part of Exeter. In 1737, the Town of Charlestown, Rhode Island would separate from Westerly, RI incorporating both Charlestown and Richmond, and Richmond would become its own town ten years later in 1747.
After 1747, the borders of villages within the Town of Richmond, RI would be varying between Carolina, Wyoming, West Wyoming, Wood River Junction, and more, with areas of Wyoming becoming modernized along with Hope Valley, Hopkinton, Rhode Island, while other parts of Wyoming would stay as farm land.
The actual borders of Wyoming were defined by google in 2024, with former areas considered Wyoming or Carolina overlapping, or not included in borders at all. The area with Wyoming-Shoreline is in the postal area of Wyoming, but not the village of Wyoming.
Formation and Early History of the Wyoming-Shoreline Exclave
Formation and Early History of the Wyoming-Shoreline Exclave
The Wyoming-Shoreline Exclave declared its separation from the Town of Richmond, RI and the Village of Wyoming as the Souzaville Exclave, declaring itself a part of the Town of Westerly on February 8th of 2025 after 288 years of being separated from the Town of Westerly, Rhode Island. The Souzaville Exclave defined its borders as 19.3 acres, with roughly, 0.800 acres of the land being water. Within the exclave is 0.26 acres worth of a road which runs from and back into the Town of Richmond, and six structures on the land on the east side of the exclave, while past the river dividing the exclave in two, the west side of the land is privately owned farm land. The measurements of the borders of the Wyoming-Shoreline Exclave were defined by Google "My Maps" feature, following natural, structural, and straight line borders.
The day after its foundation, on the 9th of February 2025, the Souzaville Exclave, named for Westerly resident and Lacrosse Athlete K. Souza, would be renamed to the Wyoming-Shoreline Exclave, incorporating the name of the Wyoming area again while combining the name with the word Shoreline, from Shoreline Drive.
#32 WHS Athlete which the exclave was named after.
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