Henry Brown
Henry Brown is a historian, writer, advocate, and community leader in Warwick. Henry has dedicated his entire life to the preservation and celebration of Warwick’s history, first learning about the city’s history in an elementary school class in 1939. In the over eighty years that followed, Henry has been intimately involved in the development of the Pawtuxet Village Association, the Gaspee Days Committee and Parade, the Warwick Historical Society, and The Bridge newspaper. Henry has collected extensive historical documents and artifacts about all aspects of Warwick history, as well as the venerable Brown family and their Spring Greene Farm, where Henry still lives today. Henry’s research and collection form a large part of the Warwick Historical Society’s collections, and he has also published extensively on Warwick history. A beloved figure in the city, Henry is a Warwick institution unto himself.