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From Early Turnpikes to the Stagecoaches
Most public bus routes that crisscross Rhode Island today overlay track beds that once supported-electric trolleys and horsecars. Before the railways, the rickety omnibus and its rough and tumble predecessor, …
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6 years ago
A Letter from Gull Rock, Little Compton: A Story of the Hurricane of 1938
In the summer of 2012, I took on the task of organizing and arranging the library and archive at the Western Rhode Island Civic Historical Society, located in the …
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6 years ago
The First Deaths Among the Seventh Rhode Island Volunteers in the Civil War
“The muffled drum’s sad roll has beat the soldier’s last tattoo.”[1]
Today the death of an American service member initiates a long process beginning with the terrible knock …
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