Diamond Hill is a huge hill on Diamond Hill Road in Cumberland, Rhode Island, which contains the city park and former ski area. The peak is 481 feet above sea level. On a clear day, the sky of Boston and Mount Wachusett is visible.
Diamond Hill is a massive outcropping of white quartz with a vertical drop of 350 feet. The hill was named in colonial times and took its name "from its shining and glowing appearance." In the colonial era, the Whipple family first settled near Diamond Hill, and during the War of King Philip in the 1670s, several minor skirmishes took place nearby, including the Nine Woes of Men, now on the grounds of the nearby Cumberland Monastery. In 1877, the Granite Diamond Hill Company established a granite quarry in northwestern Diamond Hill and copper was also mined near the hill. In 1935, "Philip Allen, C. Faulkner Kendall, and Henry Munroe Rogers offered 235 acres of land on a hill to the State of Rhode Island" and a ski trail cut shortly thereafter.
In the twentieth century, the hill contained two small ski areas, Ski Valley (operating from 1939 to 1981) and Diamond Hill Reservation (operating from the mid-1960s to the mid-1980s). In 1939 when the first ski area opened, it was a climbing and ski-down facility, but operators from the ski area eventually built a tow rope, a T-bar, and a couple of two-person chair lifts. In the 1980s, some elevators and appliances were gradually sold, and the ski area was closed. In 1997, the city of Cumberland acquired Diamond Hill from the State. The hill is now a 373-acre city park and is the starting point of Trail Warner for thirty-three miles. The park has an athletic field, a picnic area, a short climb path and a band standing by the pool.
The popular show, Cumberlandfest, is held annually on the second weekend of August at Diamond Hill Park. The show features a carnival, with rides and various places, as well as live entertainment by Matty KayKay and a small fireworks show. Results go to the city's athletic program. This event attracts thousands of people every year.
At the end of the year since 2002, Cumberland Town and the Recreational Department have organized a "Spook Trail" in the Diamond Hill Park forest on Diamond Hill Road called "Haunted Hill."
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