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The Family Garden

A Warren home (and yard) spans generations

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Nancy Tache is part of five generations that have been continually living in her Touisset home for over a century. In the early 1900s her great grandfather, Adelbert Goff and another developer established the tucked-away neighborhood of Toiusset in Warren and Swansea. In 1911, the Seaview Avenue house was completed and has been used for generations. Most recently, Nancy and her husband Pete decided to raise their child there.

With access to the land and sea, Touisset offers ample farmlands all while being bordered by Mount Hope Bay and the Kickemuit and Cole Rivers. Touisset Marsh Wildlife Refuge, owned by the Audubon Society of Rhode Island, comprises 66 unspoiled acres of salt marsh, meadows covered with wild flowers, upland field and wooded habitat.

In Nancy’s own backyard is a garden that she had planted for her grandmother but which quickly became a hobby of her own. The beautiful landscape overflows with perennials, stonewalls, daylilies, black-eyed Susans, daisies, purple coneflowers and many more variations. The large front porch offers up an amazing view of the lush scenery and ocean while being open to the warm glow of the sun and being a serene place to relax.

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