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A History of Lobotomies in Rhode Island
Charles Henry Gosselin had not yet turned two years old when the probate court of Providence committed him to the county orphanage in 1924. He spent his infancy there …
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A Survey of Rhode Island in 1789
[Note from the editor: Jedidiah Morse (1761-1826) prepared surveys of each of the states of the new United States in the 1780s. He prepared one for Rhode Island in 1789; …
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Griffin Greene’s Water Pump Raises a Sunken British Warship in 1780
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