Rhode Island’s Broken-Hearted Tower
New England Legends Podcast
Jeff Belanger
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 8 December 2022
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
In Episode 277 Jeff Belanger and Ray Auger head to South Kingstown, Rhode Island, to check out a rock and 40-foot observation tower named after Hannah Robinson, a broken-hearted woman who once sat here in 1773 to take in the view of her childhood home one last time. They say her ghost still haunts the rock, but her story still haunts us all.
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| 0:00.0 | So up here at the intersection of Bridgetown Road and Tower Hill Road, there's a parking lot. |
| 0:12.0 | Yep, I see it. We're right across the street from Dunkin' Donuts. |
| 0:14.8 | Yep. So we'll turn in here at Tower Hill Park in South Kingston, Rhode Island. |
| 0:31.7 | Well, this is a small parking lot. |
| 0:34.0 | There's room for maybe 25 cars or so. |
| 0:38.1 | The most obvious feature is the tall wooden tower in the corner of the parking lot. |
| 0:44.5 | Maybe about 40 feet high, made a wood, and there's stairs that lead to the top. We should head up there and see the view. We will, for sure. So near this tower, there's a rock, Boulder, really, |
| 0:51.2 | where long ago a young woman sat forlorn looking out over the land toward the |
| 0:55.4 | water. Estranged from her family over the man she loved, this Rock and Tower still bear the |
| 1:00.6 | name of the broken-hearted girl who once sat here. That story is what brings us to Hannah |
| 1:06.6 | Robinson Rock and Tower. |
| 1:16.1 | Hi, I'm Jeff Belanger. |
| 1:17.0 | And I'm Ray Osier. |
| 1:21.2 | Welcome to episode 277 of the New England Legends podcast. |
| 1:25.3 | Thanks for joining us on our mission to chronicle every single legend in New England, |
| 1:26.4 | one story at a time. |
| 1:31.2 | We do that through this podcast, our website, our super secret Facebook group that you can join right now, our free smartphone app, and the New England Legends television series |
| 1:35.7 | that you can watch on Amazon Prime right now. |
| 1:38.7 | We just added episode one of season two, where we explore the bloody pit, better known as Hussick Tunnel and the Berkshires of |
| 1:46.2 | Massachusetts. I'd love it if you give it a watch. Now, before we check out Hannah Robinson |
| 1:50.1 | Tower in South Kingston, Rhode Island, we want to take just a minute to tell you about our |
| 1:54.1 | sponsor, New Audie Irbles. Ray, tis the season for holiday parties, gift giving, and thinking |
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