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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM284M_the-wilkinson-mill_Pawtucket-RI.html
David Wilkinson (1771-1852), a blacksmith from Smithfield, Rhode Island, moved to Pawtucket in the early 1780s. Wilkinson invented new machines, including a steamboat, which he demonstrated in Pawtucket in 1792 (15 years before Robert Fulton's ste…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM26A1_a-livelie-experiment_Providence-RI.html
...at last to proclaim a true and absolute Soul-Freedom to all the people of the land impartially, so that no person be forced to pray nor pay, otherwise than as his Soul believeth and consenteth. Roger Williams, from Butler's Fourth Paper (1652…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM269Z_realizing-providence_Providence-RI.html
Roger Williams said there was no amount of money that could have purchased Providence. In 1636, Williams and the Narragansett tribal leaders, or Sachems, Cononicus and Miantonomo, negotiated for the land that became Providence. Together, they ag…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM269X_seasonal-gathering_Providence-RI.html
For thousands of years before European settlement, people came from across the region to the Great Salt Cove to hunt, fish, and farm. The Narragansett, Wampanoag, Massachusett, and Nipmuc all used the trails that intersected here on the upper Narr…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM269V_roger-williams-national-memorial_Providence-RI.html
Welcome to the birthplace of religious freedom in the United States. Roger Williams, fleeing religious persecution in England and Massachusetts Bay Colony, founded Providence here in 1636. The original inhabitants, the Narragansett and Wampanoag, …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2684_the-fighting-bee_North-Kingstown-RI.html
In 1942 Rhode Islander Frank J. lafrate was a 22 year old civilian file clerk at the Quonset Point Naval Air Station. In his spare time he drew cartoons. A Navy lieutenant with the newly established 'Construction Battalions' asked if he could prod…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2683_a-place-for-your-ideas_Providence-RI.html
There is no National Memorial to Roger Williams here [in Washington], unlike the monuments to other national heroes like Washington, Jefferson, and Lincoln. Our National Memorial is in Rhode Island, where he lived and left us a philosophical legac…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM266J_griffins-hollow_South-Kingstown-RI.html
On January 13th, 1886, Daniel Billington Griffin purchased a certain tract of land situated in Wakefield Village from Rowland & John N. Hazard for the sum of 2,000 dollars. This particular parcel of land was located on the corner of Post Road (p…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2660_cliff-walk_Newport-RI.html
Restored with Federal, State, City funds by the Cliff Walk Committee, Claus Von Bulow Chairman Mayor Humphrey J. Donnelly, III 1974-76 Contractor - V.J. Paolino Construction Company
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2656_newport-casino-international-tennis-hall-of-fame_Newport-RI.html
You are standing at the entrance to the Newport Casino, a National Historic Landmark that now houses the International Tennis Hall of Fame. The Casino was built in 1880 as a social club for Newport's wealthy summer residents. The name of the pr…
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