Blackstone Stocking Co. Cobble Hill Road stretches from Route 246 almost to Smithfield Avenue, merging with Weeden Street at Power Road. It is a wooded, windy two-lane road flanked on both sides by rocky ledge. Heading from Louisquisset Pike toward Pawtucket, the speed limit reduces to 25 miles per hour, with a wide curve heading downhill. Many of the newer homes are surrounded by large boulders, blasted from the property. Others are built high on top of the ledge.
Stone walls line the road, in front of raised ranches and older bungalows.
Like most places, Cobble Hill Road has changed significantly in the last seven decades. Warren Smith has watched the changes. It was very rural. To shop, Smith's family would go down the hill to Smithfield Avenue and Weeden Streets, where there was a collection of small markets. Smith's father owned a car, but many of his neighbors still had horses and buggys.