Rhode Island
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5.8KChopmist Hill, Rhode Island’s Secret Listening Post in WWII
Just before Pearl Harbor, Chopmist Hill in Scituate, R.I., was the center of the world. That’s what the Federal Communications Commission discovered...
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2.8KGordon Bennett, the Madcap, Scandal-Mongering Publisher Who Built the Newport Casino
Today in Britain people utter ‘Gordon Bennett’ when someone says something unbelievable, disgusting, surprising or outrageous. They probably don’t know they’re referring...
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5.5K1Six Places an Iconic Food Was Born
New England has given birth to many an iconic food. The exact birthplace, however, of such beloved treats as the fluffernutter sandwish,...
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5.5K5Nine Men’s Misery: ‘Oldest Veterans Memorial’ Honors Tortured Plymouth Colonists.
On the wooded grounds of an old monastery in Cumberland, R.I., a pile of stones stands next to a cement pillar with...
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5.8K4Four Days in May: The 1942 Rhode Island Forest Fires
On May 1, 1942, fire leveled more than 300 acres in the Limerock section of Lincoln, R.I. The source of ignition was...
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4.5K2The New England Defenders of the Alamo
Among the defenders of the Alamo, at least eight came from New England to start a new life. Those lives were cut...
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6.1K1The Hardscrabble Riot of 1824 Makes Providence a City
In 1824, several hundred white people tore down about 20 homes occupied by black people in a mixed neighborhood called Hardscrabble in...
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4.3K2Saving the Historic Gas Station
Once New Englanders decided to save the historic Old South Meeting House in 1876, they began to preserve others kinds of historic...
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5.5K1When Annapolis Moved to Newport, RI
The United States Naval Academy is and was located in Annapolis, Md., and that posed a problem with the advent of the...
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6.3KRhode Island’s Little Annapolis: The PT Boat Training Center at Melville
During World War II, Rhode Island residents could hear the roar of PT boat engines from Narragansett Bay all day and see...
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