Town file
Warren, Rhode Island
Warren, Rhode Island (Bristol County, Rhode Island) is the town in one episode of Small Town Murder, the comedy true-crime podcast: episode 75, "Not Much Of A Plan" (6 July 2018). Warren, Rhode Island, sits in Bristol County in the east-central part of the state, a small panhandle of about 8.7 square miles reaching into the water.
- Town
- Warren
- County
- Bristol County
- State
- Rhode Island
- Country
- USA
- Episodes
- 75
- Approximate location
- 41.725, -71.259
Episode 75 / 6 July 2018 / 125 min / full
Not Much Of A Plan
"we're going to uh to Warren, Rhode Island, to be specific; it's in Bristol county, zip code 02885" about 0:05:46
The case: Murders of James and Marian Sawers (July 2008). Read the case file.
The figures, as told in 2018
- Population
- 1,473
- Median age
- about 42 and a half
- Median household income
- $53,706
- Two-bedroom rent
- about $940
- Cost of living
- 124
- Religious
- 82.43%
- Property crime
- ▼ about a third
- Violent crime
- ▼ about 15% under
History, in brief
- Warren was the site of the Native American village of the Sowams. about 0:12:50
- The village stood on a peninsula called the Pocanaket. about 0:13:01
- The area, Mount Hope Neck, was first explored by Europeans Edward Winslow and Stephen Hopkins in 1621. about 0:13:19
- Edward Winslow was a separatist who travelled on the Mayflower and a senior leader who signed the Mayflower Compact with his brother Gilbert. about 0:14:24
- Stephen Hopkins had been shipwrecked in Bermuda in 1609, was at Jamestown, Virginia, in May 1610, returned to England in 1614 and then sailed back. about 0:15:07
- The Plymouth colony established a trading post in the area. about 0:15:41
- The land around Warren was ceded to Rhode Island from Massachusetts. about 0:16:55
- Warren was settled in 1747. about 0:18:04
- The town was named after the British naval hero Admiral Sir Peter Warren. about 0:18:08
- Barrington was unified with Warren until it was separated in 1770. about 0:18:35
- Warren became a major whaling port. about 0:18:45
- Warren was the original home of Brown University, founded in 1764 as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. about 0:19:34
- Brown was intended as the Baptist answer to Yale, Harvard, Princeton and Columbia. about 0:21:40
- The decline of whaling in the 19th century led the town into textile manufacturing. about 0:21:56
- Today Warren has waterfront businesses, seafood and marine businesses. about 0:22:30
- Children's writer and poet Hezekiah Butterworth came from Warren. about 0:22:45
- Lizzie Murphy, the queen of baseball and the first woman to play professional baseball against men, was born in 1894 and was playing with men by the age of 15. about 0:23:15
Nearest Small Town Murder towns
- Barrington, Rhode Island3.2 miles
- East Providence, Rhode Island7.3 miles
- Pawtucket, Rhode Island12 miles
- Cranston, Rhode Island12 miles
- Little Compton, Rhode Island16 miles
- Raynham, Massachusetts18 miles
Everything here is as told in the episode, on the date it went out; figures and places may have changed since. Endings are covered: open an episode and use the spoiler switch to read them.