RIPR’s Chuck Hinman investigates the Western Hotel in Nasonville, with owner Al Mottola.
In early 1860, Abraham Lincoln came to Rhode Island gathering support for his presidential campaign. He stopped in Providence and Woonsocket. and there’s a rumor that he also visited Burrillville’s Western Hotel, a popular stagecoach stop on the Douglas Turnpike. For the final installment in our series One Square Mile: Burrillville, Rhode Island Public Radio’s Chuck Hinman takes us to the Western Hotel, in the village of Nasonville, in the town’s southeast corner. It turns out, this hotel has some interesting history, both real and imagined.
