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Blackstone River State Park, Rhode Island: This park borders both the Blackstone River and Canal and contains bike paths, walking trails, and river access. The Wilbur Kelly Museum, built by former merchant ship's captain and mill owner Wilbur Kelly, is also within the park, and the museum tells the story of the region's transportation history ...
Rhode Island’s sole billionaire Jonathan Nelson, of Providence Equity Partners, lives in Providence and is worth $3.1 billion, according to Forbes. More: RI billionaires club a lonely place. See ...
Obadiah Holmes (1610 – 15 October 1682) was an early Rhode Island settler, and a Baptist minister who was whipped in the Massachusetts Bay Colony for his religious beliefs and activism. He became the pastor of the Baptist Church in Newport, Rhode Island, a position he held for 30 years.
A 5-foot-tall stone pillar marks the trailhead at the Rhode Island/Connecticut border. To mark the 20th anniversary of the little border dispute, The Providence Journal is looking at how Rhode ...
The Stephen Hopkins House is the oldest extant house in Providence. The Rhode Island city of Providence has a nearly 400-year history integral to that of the United States, including significance in the American Revolutionary War by providing leadership and fighting strength, quartering troops, and supplying goods to residents by circumventing the blockade of Newport.
Some of the best-known places in Rhode Island don't really exist. You're probably familiar with many of them. ... For this story, we consider the U.S. Board on Geographic Names, a federal panel ...
The French in Rhode Island (Rhode Island Heritage Commission, 1988). Coleman, Peter J. The Transformation of Rhode Island, 1790–1860 (1963). online edition; Conley, Patrick T. The Irish in Rhode Island (Rhode Island Heritage Commission, 1988). Coughtry, Jay A. The Notorious Triangle: Rhode Island and the African Slave Trade, 1700–1807 (1981).
Rhode Island (/ ˌ r oʊ d-/ ⓘ, pronounced "road") [6] [7] is a state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States.It borders Connecticut to its west; Massachusetts to its north and east; and the Atlantic Ocean to its south via Rhode Island Sound and Block Island Sound; and shares a small maritime border with New York, east of Long Island. [8]