Rhode Island
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3.6K2Saving 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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3.4K1When 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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5.3KRhode 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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4.7KSeven Fun Facts About Taxes
There isn’t much that’s fun about taxes, but we thought we’d try to find something. So we found seven fun -- well,...
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6.7K1Black Husband, White Scientist: The Secret Double Life of Clarence King
In 1888, Clarence King started to lead two secret lives, one on each side of the Brooklyn Bridge. In Manhattan, he was...
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5.3K2Six Historic Buildings With a Clerestory
Ever since visiting the Henry Knox Museum in Thomaston, Maine, we at the New England Historical Society have grown fascinated with clerestory...
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4.5KJames Mitchell Varnum Gets His Way After 218 Years
James Mitchell Varnum fought against English rule in the American Revolution as one of George Washington’s generals. Then shortly after the war...
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4.0KIsrael Potter, Revolutionary POW, Hobnobs in Europe With a King and 2 Founding Fathers
Israel Potter, a Revolutionary War POW, spent 50 years in exile in England, where he met King George III, Benjamin Franklin and...
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5.9K3The Civilian Conservation Corps, a Young Man’s Adventure
During the depths of the Great Depression, a 17-year-old boy from Warren, R.I., enlisted in the Civilian Conservation Corps. He did it...
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21.9K7Six Historic One-Room Schoolhouses
Thousands of one-room schoolhouses once educated New England children, some well into the 20th century. Small, utilitarian buildings, they usually lacked plumbing...
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