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Business Owners Try to Control How Their Employees Vote in 1876 Election
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Politics
[Editor’s Note: This excerpt (from an 1880 report) explains how some big businesses tried to control the manner in which their employees voted in the presidential election year of 1876 …
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The Smith Granite Company of Westerly: A Short History
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Business
One of the oldest quarry districts in New England can be found in Westerly, where stone commonly known as Westerly White and Westerly Blue became the United States Bureau of …
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Indian Forts in Early Rhode Island
In Rhode Island history, little is said (or known) about the Native American defenses against the colonial settlers in southern New England. Human beings had learned, early on in their …
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