3 years ago
A Mystery at Canonchet: Who Built the Stone Piles in Hopkinton and Why?
“We sometimes speak of stubborn facts. Nonsense! A fact is a mere babe when compared with a stubborn theory.” – Samuel McChord Crothers
On October 7, 2017, the Hopkinton Land …
Read More
5 years ago
How Smallpox Trail in Richmond Got Its Name
While Carolyn Richard was a member of the Richmond Town Council, she was approached by a resident who complained about the name of the street where she lived—Smallpox Trail. Carolyn …
Read More
5 years ago
Edward Cranston Catches Ohio Fever
European immigrants were not the only people who filled the Midwest with farms. Plenty of Rhode Islanders went west, too.
By the late 1700s, the population in Rhode Island, Massachusetts …
Read More
6 years ago
Two Selves in One Skull: Ansel Bourne’s Strange Interlude
On the morning of January 20, 1887, Isabelle Bourne, who lived in the village of Greene in Coventry, told the police that her husband, Ansel, a clergyman, had been missing …
Read More
7 years ago
Jackson Was Murdered And Carter Was Hanged For It-But That Is All We’re Sure About
Napoleon Bonaparte said that history is the version of past events that people have decided to agree on. William Jackson was murdered in South Kingstown in 1751, and Thomas Carter …
Read More
Most Popular Articles
