Rhode Island
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29.6K9Six Military Routes Used During the American Revolution
You could do worse than look at fall foliage along old military routes in New England. Some of them, originally Indian trails,...
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17.8K2The Fall River Skeleton in Armor
The Fall River skeleton discovered in 1832 in a sand bank near a church had an unusual feature: It was clad in...
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12.8K46 New England Diners
The diner has a long and proud history in New England, from its roots outside of a Providence newspaper to today’s retro...
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16.6K36 Places That Used To Be Part of a Different State
For centuries, New England’s borders were anything but stable and New Englanders didn’t agree on what they were. Maine was once part...
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14.0K6How the Greek Immigrants Came to New England
In 1860, U.S. Census takers recorded 328 Greek immigrants living in America. Among them were 40 young men and boys. They arrived...
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15.2K6Doris Duke, the Last Gilded Age Socialite of Newport
In 1925 at the age of 12, Doris Duke became the richest little girl in the world. She was the only child...
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