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  2. History of Rhode Island - Wikipedia

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    Rhode Island History; Rhode Island Naval History; History of Rhode Island (1853; full text online) State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations at the end of the century by Edward Field (ed.). History of the state, published in 1902. (Full text available online.) 1663 charter Archived 2010-11-26 at the Wayback Machine; Indian Place Names

  3. List of museums in Rhode Island - Wikipedia

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    Rhode Island School of Design Museum: Providence Providence Art Collection includes art from Egypt, Asia, Africa, ancient Greece and Rome, Europe, and the Americas, decorative arts, costumes and textiles Rhode Island Radio Museum North Providence Providence Historic Technology Private Collection of Radio and Wireless Equipment and Parts ...

  4. Gaspee affair - Wikipedia

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    HMS Gaspee was a Royal Navy revenue schooner that enforced the Navigation Acts around Newport, Rhode Island, in 1772. [1] It ran aground in shallow water while chasing the packet boat Hannah on June 9 off Warwick, Rhode Island. A group of men led by Abraham Whipple and John Brown I attacked, boarded, and burned the Gaspee to the waterline. [2]

  5. Timeline of Newport, Rhode Island - Wikipedia

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    Rhode Island imprints: a list of books, pamphlets, newspapers and broadsides printed at Newport, Providence, Warren, Rhode Island, between 1727 and 1800, Providence: Rhode Island Historical Society, 1915, OL 7091649M; A guide to Newport, Rhode Island, Newport: Gabriel Weis, 1916, OL 14010639M

  6. Museum of Newport History - Wikipedia

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    The Museum of Newport History is a history museum in the Old Brick Market building in the heart of Newport, Rhode Island, United States.It is owned and operated by the Newport Historical Society at 127 Thames Street on Washington Square.

  7. 8 jaw-dropping facts about the famous Breakers mansion ... - AOL

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    Newport, Rhode Island is a charming New England city characterized by rich history, quaint shops and restaurants and yacht-filled harbors. Amongst museums, bars and plenty of historical landmarks ...

  8. Redwood Library and Athenaeum - Wikipedia

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    The Redwood Library and Athenaeum is a subscription library, museum, rare book repository and research center founded in 1747, and located at 50 Bellevue Avenue in Newport, Rhode Island. The building, designed by Peter Harrison and completed in March 1750, was the first purposely built library in the United States, and the oldest neo-Classical ...

  9. The oldest town in Rhode Island is not what you would think

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