Kosher and Jewish Life in Kingston

Kingston is a village in the town of South Kingstown, Rhode Island. Kingston was first settled in the late seventeenth century. For a time, starting in the late 1770s, Jemima Wilkinson (known as the Public Universal Friend) resided and preached in the town. As late as the 1900s inhabitants of Kingston called a species of solidago "Jemima weed", because its appearance in the town coincided with the preacher's first visit to the area. South Kingstown established the Kingston Historic District in 1959, and much of Kingston village became a National Register historic district in 1974 as Kingston Village Historic District.