Biohazard and Crime Scene Remediation in Carolina, RI

Carolina is a census-designated place and village that straddles the border of the towns of Charlestown and Richmond on the Pawcatuck River in Washington County, Rhode Island, with Rhode Island Route 112 passing through it.

The 2020 census counted 924 people and 382 households in the Carolina CDP, which covers 2.48 square miles in total, of which 2.46 square miles is land.

In 1802 the first wooden dam and a gristmill were built on the river at the site of the village, which was then known as Nichols Bridge, and a cotton mill was established a few years later.

Rowland G. Hazard bought the mill in 1843 and renamed it the Carolina Mills Company in honor of his wife Caroline Newbold Hazard, and the village around the mill took the same name.

In 1862 the mill complex switched from cotton textile production to production of woolens, and the mill operated until 1930 or 1935.

The Carolina Village Historic District was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974 and includes 71 properties over 115 acres, with Greek Revival, Italianate, and Queen Anne architecture.

Historic buildings in the village include the Carolina School, built in 1845, the Carolina Free Will Baptist Church, built in 1845 and relocated in 1865, and the octagonal Albert Potter House, built in 1867.

Carolina was the site of one of the first trout farms in America, as John W. Hoxie established the Clearwater Trout Farm in 1877, and by the early 1920s the American Fish Culture Company was considered the largest fish farm in America before its sale to the State of Rhode Island in 1995.

The local post office was named Carolina Mills from 1850 until 1879, when it was renamed Carolina.

Carolina has its own ZIP code, 02812, but only the Richmond side is served by the Carolina post office, even though the post office building itself is located in Charlestown.