Rare 1970s Watch Hill RI Rhode Island Beach & Bath Tag shop Badge Set

Product Name: Rare 1970s Watch Hill RI Rhode Island Beach & Bath Tag shop Badge Set
INVREF#CL41 You are bidding on this set 1970s Watch Hill RI Rhode Island Beach & Bath Tag Badge Set. The tags were color coded for beach cabana and bath house usage on Watch Hill beach. See pics for details of this vintage set. Purchased at the estate of a long time Watch Hill memorabilia collector who's family owned farmland near Watch Hill going back multiple generations to the pre-Victorian era. Watch Hill is an affluent coastal village and census-designated place  in the town  of Westerly, Rhode Island. The population was 154 at the 2010census.It sits at the most-southwestern point in all of Rhode Island. It came to prominence in the late 19th and early 20th century as shop an exclusive summer resort, with wealthy families building sprawling Victorian-style "cottages" along the peninsula. Watch Hill is characterized by The New York Times as a community "with a strong sense of privacy and of discreetly used wealth," in contrast with "the overpowering castles of the very rich" in nearb.