Quarterly
Programs
- During the spring and fall seasons, the Society presents speakers on
various preservation or historical topics.
View past programs.
Plaque Program
- The
Foster Preservation Society
has promoted the identification of homes and buildings, some of which are
listed in the State and/or National Register of Historic Places, and others
which may not be on the National Register but have local importance.
These buildings are awarded plaques which bear the name of the original
owner and date the house was built.
To apply for a
Foster Preservation Society plaque, access the
"Guidelines" and "Application" at the links shown below.
For more information, please feel free to contact us at
phone number or email shown at
the bottom of our home page.
Plaque Program Guidelines
Plaque Application
Historical
Cemetery
Program -
Beginning in 2011 (and mostly completed by 2015), the Society conducted a survey of Foster's 158 historic cemeteries.
This survey allows you to see
details, GPS coordinates, and photos of each historic cemetery located in
Foster, Rhode Island. The survey is an ongoing project which will be
updated regularly. Click on the link below for details:
Rhode Island Historical Cemetery
Commission
Foster Preservation Society Historical Cemetery Survey
(under construction)
Perpetual Care
More info can be found about Foster cemeteries on our "Resources
and Links page"
and at the survey link which appears below.
We also sponsor periodic clean-ups by our members or with other local groups
such as the Boy Scouts.
FPS has replaced Historic Cemetery
Signs!
As the FPS Historical Cemetery survey progressed, one
of the Society's goals was to replace all of the historic cemetery signs
which had been
damaged or gone missing. The FPS had the new signs made and has now installed well over 40 signs. If you notice that
a sign is missing
from an historic cemetery near you, please contact the Society using
the phone number or email shown on the home page.
Thank you!!!
Winsor
Blacksmith Shop
demonstrations
-
Free
demonstrations of the blacksmith's trade are presented during school tours,
occasionally throughout the year, and
during the
three-day long
Old Home Days celebration on the last
weekend of July each year.
Historic
Tours
- The Society offers educational tours to students and adult tours on
an occasional basis. Each year Society members provided a guided tour
of the own of Foster to students of the Captain Isaac Paine School, see
photo to the right. > > > > > >
In
2006, 2008, and 2010 the Society organized "Barn Tours"
which gave attendees an inside look at many of the historic barns and
associated farm structures in the Town of Foster.
In 2012, the society ran an Historic
Cemetery Tour.
Please feel free to
contact us at the phone number or email
shown at the bottom of our home
for information about arranging a tour of an historic district for your club
or group.
National
Register Programs
- Our members worked on and completed
the research required to have the four historic districts in Foster listed
in the National Register of Historic Places, the four districts are:
Foster
Center
Hopkins Mills
Moosup Valley and
Clayville.
There
still remain a number of individual properties
throughout Foster that have been
deemed eligible for nomination to the National Register, pending additional research.
State Register Programs
-
Rhode Island's State Register includes nearly 20,000 properties,
including those listed in the National Register of Historic
Places as well as addiitonal sites determined to be significant
to Rhode Island's heritage
Cultural Programs
- From time to time, the Society presents or co-sponsors a regional cultural
program.
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