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Unique Stores in Rhode Island

Rhode Island’s compact collection links old retail traditions with food production and hands-on craft. Brown & Hopkins Country Store continues more than two centuries of country-store life in Chepachet through candy, gifts, local goods, and historic surroundings. In Providence, Gather Glass + Gather Café pairs a working glass studio and gallery with a café and house-made ice cream. At Kenyon's Grist Mill stone-ground products and a country shop remain connected to an operating West Kingston mill. Together these stops offer history, making, and food; all current Rhode Island profiles appear below.

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Chepachet, RI
Brown & Hopkins Country Store
A two-floor Chepachet country store operating since 1809, where current candles, sweets, gourmet pantry goods, home décor and gifts share the building with an original penny counter and artifacts from more than two centuries of mercantile history.
Brown & Hopkins remains a working modern country store inside a 1799 building, with current retail spread around an original penny counter and preserved store relics.
Grocery & pantryHome goods & furnitureAntiques & vintageGifts, novelty & souvenirsOther
Grocery & pantryHome goods & furnitureAntiques & vintage+2 more
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Providence, RI
Gather Glass + Gather Café
An Atwells Avenue pairing where handmade glass retail and a working glassblowing studio sit beside a small-batch ice-cream café, joined visually by a full glass wall that lets café visitors watch the hot shop.
Gather combines glass art, a working studio, classes and custom work with an adjoining small-batch ice-cream café built around views into the hot shop.
Food & drinkArt, crafts & handmadeGifts, novelty & souvenirsOther
Food & drinkArt, crafts & handmadeGifts, novelty & souvenirs+1 more
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West Kingston, RI
Kenyon's Grist Mill
A rural Rhode Island mill store where stone-ground cornmeal, flour and mixes are sold beside an 1886 grist mill that still works with original Westerly granite millstones on a milling site documented to 1696.
Kenyon's pairs direct sales of its stone-ground meals and mixes with a working historic grist mill and scheduled weekend tours.
Food & drinkGrocery & pantryGifts, novelty & souvenirsOther
Food & drinkGrocery & pantryGifts, novelty & souvenirs+1 more
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North Smithfield, RI
Wright's Dairy Farm & Bakery
A North Smithfield bakery and dairy store where visitors shop cakes, pastries and bottled milk made on the farm, then watch the working herd and milking operation through a large viewing window.
Wright's brings a full bakery, milk bottling and direct dairy retail together with free viewing of the farm's cows and daily milking.
Food & drinkGrocery & pantryOther
Food & drinkGrocery & pantryOther