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Online Book and Gift Shop

 

There are two ways you can obtain an item from the Foster Preservation Society.

 

1.  If you wish to pay by check, Click Here for our Order Form, fill it out and send it to us by mail and the item will be shipped to the address you indicate.

 

2.  If you wish to avoid shipping charges, all publications may be purchased directly from the Preservation Society Office in the basement of the Foster Town House located at 181 Howard Hill Road, Foster, Rhode Island on Wednesday mornings between 9:00 am until 12:00 noon (barring any bad weather).  

 

Books

By My Kin:  Stories of Foster ...


Collected by
Margery I. Matthews

Historical narratives and town trivia.

$8.00

The Butcher, the Baker, the Candlestick Maker
Stores in Foster: 19th - 21st Century

 

Pamphlet produced by the Foster Preservation Society.

$1.00

Chronicles of Foster

 

Stories by Margery I. Matthews

$8.00

This Finnish Episode:  Recalling the Finns in Foster, Rhode Island and its Surrounding Areas

 

by Walter W. Grass

NOT CURRENTLY AVAILABLE

FOSTER

1781 - A Bicentennial Celebration - 1981

 

Album of old photographs compiled by the Foster Bicentennial Committee.

$8.00

Foster and the Patriot's Dream

 

by Sandra Olson, Margery I. Matthews, Marcia M. Bowden,

and Elizabeth Olausen

 

Foster's contribution to the patriots' cause in the War of Independence.

$6.00

Foster: Images of America

 

by Raymond A. Wolf

 

This book, released in February 2012, contains many historic photographs of the Town of Foster taken through the years.

 

$23.53

It Was a Good Life

 

by Margery I. Matthews

Reminiscences of Foster by Members of the Foster Preservation Society.

$8.00

Notes on a House in Westconnaug:

Its People and History

 

by Edward H. Balfour

$12.00

  The One Room School House    

 

Various stories and vignettes about Foster's one room school houses are included in this volume, including school rules and excerpts from Superintendent's reports between 1878-1908.

 

Originally published by the Ladies Auxiliary of

The Foster Center Volunteer Fire Company

 

$7.00

  Peleg's Last Word:  The Story of the Foster Woolen Manufactory

 

by Margery I. Matthews

 

The legend of Peleg Walker and the Ramtail Mill.

$7.00

A Rhode Island Rule Book (hardcover)


by Leah Inman Lapham c. 1939

A reprint of a Cookbook of Historical Recipes & Cures.

$15.00

So I've Been Told

 

by Margery I. Matthews

A collection of stories about Foster.

$8.00

Tax Records for 1781, 1787, & 1798

 

transcribed by Margery I. Matthews

 

$6.00

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Videos

Barns of Foster

 

DVD produced by the Foster Preservation Society (Aug 2010).

$10.00

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Maps

Maps of Foster (BLACK AND WHITE)

 

Dates available: 1799, 1862, 1870, 1895

 

These maps are each printed on a sheet of heavy paper which is 12 inches wide by 18 inches tall.

$5.00 each

Map of Foster (COLOR)

 

Dated: 1870

 

This map is each printed on a sheet of heavy paper which is

12 inches wide by 18 inches tall.

$5.00
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Gifts

t-shirt

 

Swamp Meadow Bridge T-Shirt

 

grey with black picture and text reading:

Swamp Meadow Bridge Foster, RI

 

Available in S, M, L, and XL.

 

$12.00

 

 

 

 

 

 

Foster Preservation Society

P.O. Box 51

Foster, RI 02825

Phone (401) 397-5687