Where to find high water mark plaques from RI's past floods and hurricanes

Throughout Rhode Island, high water mark plaques serve as sobering reminders of the damage wrought by hurricanes and other natural disasters.

They range from weathered markers commemorating the Great Gale of 1815 in downtown Providence to newer signs along the Pawtuxet and Pawcatuck Rivers that were erected after the floods of 2010. Many are souvenirs of the hurricanes of 1938 and 1954, memorializing the dramatic heights that floodwaters reached during those storms.

Here's a list of locations where you can find them.

Bristol

Private home, 736 Hope Street. (Hurricane of 1938)

Ever-Ready Engine and Hose Co. No. 2, 201 Thames Street. (Hurricane of 1938)

Cranston

Cranston League for Cranston’s Future, 970 Pontiac Ave. (Flood of 2010)

Narragansett

Coast Guard House, 40 Ocean Road. (Located inside the restaurant and shows water level during Hurricane Bob, 1991)

North Kingstown

The Impressed Olive, 99 Brown Street. (Hurricane of 1938)

Wickford Yacht Club, 165 Pleasant Street. (Hurricane of 1938)

Providence

Confluence of Mossasuck and Woonasquatucket River, Memorial Boulevard. (The marker is located at the base of a lamppost in between the Washington Street and Steeple Street bridges. It is visible from the river, but not the street, and commemorates the high water marks during the Great Gale of 1815, Hurricane of 1938, and Hurricane of 1954.)

Banigan Building, 10 Weybosset Street. (Hurricane of 1938 and Hurricane of 1954)

Fleet Library, Rhode Island School of Design, 15 Westminster Street. (Great Gale of 1815 and Hurricane of 1938)

Turks Head Building, 76 Westminster Street. (Located inside the lobby and commemorates the Hurricane of 1938 and Hurricane of 1954)

Graduate Providence, 15 Dorrance Street. (Still known to Rhode Islanders as the Biltmore, the hotel's lobby has a plaque marking the water levels during the Hurricane of 1938)

Union Trust Company Building, 62 Dorrance Street. (Hurricane of 1938)

Gardner Building, 40 Fountain Street. (Hurricane of 1938.)

Providence Journal, 75 Fountain Street. (Hurricane of 1938.

Market House, 4 North Main Street. (Great Gale of 1815 and Hurricane of 1938)

Warwick

Warwick Sewer Authority, 125 Arthur W. Devine Boulevard. (Flood of 2010)

Westerly

Johnnycake Center, 23 Industrial Drive. (Flood of 2010)

Polly Coons Bridge, Grills Preserve. (A rock cairn on the Westerly side of the bridge and a marker on the Hopkinton side of the bridge show the level that the water reached during the flood of 2010)

Know of a high water mark that should be on this list? Please email a recent photo and the location to afarzan@providencejournal.com.