All of the following information is provided by Four Centuries of Rhode Island History: Smith’s Castle where four centuries of Rhode Island history are preserved. In 1637, Richard Smith established a trading house on land granted by the Narragansett sachems. In 1666 Richard Smith expanded his father’s estate nearly ten miles inland and through Narragansett Bay. In 1675 the combined militia of Connecticut, Massachusetts Bay, and Plymouth gathered and launched an attack on the Narragansett Winter encampment at the Great Swamp during King Philip’s War. In the 1700’s the Updike family built one of the most prosperous Narragansett plantations. In 1923 a noted New York attorney and his wife, the Fox’s, started a large dairy enterprise with award winning imported Scotland cattle. In 1948 Smith’s Castle was restored by a group of preservationist and the Cocumscussoc Association was created to educate the public.