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Rhode Island (/ˌroʊd-/ ^ⓘ, pronounced "road") is a state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States. It borders Connecticut to its west; Massachusetts to its north and east; and the Atlantic Ocean to its south via Rhode Island Sound and Block Island Sound; and shares a small maritime border with New York, east of Long Island. Rhode Island is the smallest U.S. state by area and the seventh-least populous, with slightly fewer than 1.1 million residents as of 2020; but it has grown at every decennial count since 1790 and is the second-most densely populated state, after New Jersey. The state takes its name from the eponymous island, though nearly all its land area is on the mainland. Providence is its capital and most populous city.

Native Americans lived around Narragansett Bay before English settlers began arriving in the early 17th century. Rhode Island was unique among the Thirteen British Colonies in having been founded by a refugee, Roger Williams, who fled religious persecution in the Massachusetts Bay Colony to establish a haven for religious liberty. He founded Providence in 1636 on land purchased from local tribes, creating the first settlement in North America with an explicitly secular government. The Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations subsequently became a destination for religious and political dissenters and social outcasts, earning it the moniker "Rogue's Island".

Rhode Island was the first colony to call for a Continental Congress, in 1774, and the first to renounce its allegiance to the British Crown, on May 4, 1776. After the American Revolution, during which it was heavily occupied and contested, Rhode Island became the fourth state to ratify the Articles of Confederation, on February 9, 1778. Because its citizens favored a weaker central government, it boycotted the 1787 convention that had drafted the United States Constitution, which it initially refused to ratify; it finally ratified it on May 29, 1790, the last of the original 13 states to do so.

The state was officially named the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations since the colonial era but came to be commonly known as "Rhode Island". On November 3, 2020, the state's voters approved an amendment to the state constitution formally dropping "and Providence Plantations" from its full name. Its official nickname is the "Ocean State", a reference to its 400 mi (640 km) of coastline and the large bays and inlets that make up about 14% of its area. (Full article...)

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Art's Auto

Art's Auto is a historic former service station at 5–7 Lonsdale Avenue in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. It is a single-story brick structure with a flat roof and a series of towers capped by pointed roofs. It was erected as an automotive service station in 1927–28 for Arthur Normand at a time when gasoline producers competed, in part, by the shape and style of their service stations. This station is one of two stations known to survive from this period in the state. Its front facade has a dramatic presentation, with square towers topped by pyramidal roofs at the corners, and a projecting round bay in the center topped by a conical roof, with windows arrayed around the bay and on its flanks. The building is currently used as an office for Anchor Financial. Art's Auto was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. (Full article...)

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Cohan in 1918

George Michael Cohan (July 3, 1878 – November 5, 1942) was an American entertainer, playwright, composer, lyricist, actor, singer, dancer and theatrical producer.

Cohan began his career as a child, performing with his parents and sister in a vaudeville act known as "The Four Cohans". Beginning with Little Johnny Jones in 1904, he wrote, composed, produced, and appeared in more than three dozen Broadway musicals. Cohan wrote more than 50 shows and published more than 300 songs during his lifetime, including the standards "Over There", "Give My Regards to Broadway", "The Yankee Doodle Boy" and "You're a Grand Old Flag". As a composer, he was one of the early members of the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP). He displayed remarkable theatrical longevity, appearing in films until the 1930s and continuing to perform as a headline artist until 1940. (Full article...)

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... that Northup Avenue Yard in Providence, Rhode Island, was described as "the finest in the New Haven system"?
... that a Rhode Island TV station broadcast for 14 months and then was off the air for 26 years before returning?
... that three decades after chasing away surveyors for a previous railroad with guns, residents of Wickford, Rhode Island, built their own railroad?
... that James Diossa rescued the only public library and post office in Central Falls, Rhode Island, when the city went into bankruptcy?

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Political corruption is to Rhode Islanders as smog is to people who live in Los Angeles: nobody complains of its absence, but when it rolls around everyone feels right at home.

— Philip Gourevitch

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Winnapaug Pond (also known as Brightman Pond) is a breached saltwater pond in Westerly, Rhode Island, United States, connected to Block Island Sound by the Weekapaug Breachway, which was constructed during the mid-1950s. The 2.5-mile (4.0 km) long lake is separated from the Atlantic by a large sandbar.

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Image 1The United States Naval Academy was moved to Fort Adams in Newport during the Civil War. (from Rhode Island)
Image 2In 1636, Roger Williams and his followers founded the settlement of Providence Plantations. (from Rhode Island)
Image 3County results of the 2020 Presidential election. Joe Biden (D) won every county. (from Rhode Island)
Image 4A nine-pence banknote issued by Rhode Island in 1786 (from Rhode Island)
Image 5Slater Mill in Pawtucket is cited as the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution in the United States.
Image 6The Towers are a Narragansett landmark. (from Rhode Island)
Image 7The Jamestown Verrazzano Bridge (foreground) and Claiborne Pell Newport Bridge (background)
Image 8In 1936, on the 300th anniversary of the settlement of Rhode Island in 1636, the U.S. Post Office issued a commemorative stamp, depicting Roger Williams (from Rhode Island)
Image 9Rhode Island population density map (from Rhode Island)
Image 10University Hall at Brown University is one of the oldest academic buildings in the United States. (from Rhode Island)
Image 11Ninigret Pond National Wildlife Refuge (from Rhode Island)
Image 12University Hall at Brown University is one of the oldest academic buildings in the United States. (from Rhode Island)
Image 13Map of Rhode Island, showing major cities and roads (from Rhode Island)
Image 14Many Rhode Islanders visit Washington County for its beaches (from Rhode Island)
Image 15In 1636, Roger Williams and his followers founded the settlement of Providence Plantations. (from Rhode Island)
Image 16Many Rhode Islanders visit Washington County for its beaches (from Rhode Island)
Image 17The Rhode Island Public Transit Authority operates a statewide system of bus transport. (from Rhode Island)
Image 18In 1680, Newport was the third largest Anglo-American city. It remained a prosperous population center until the 1770s. (from Rhode Island)
Image 19The United States Naval Academy was moved to Fort Adams in Newport during the Civil War. (from Rhode Island)
Image 20A nine-pence banknote issued by Rhode Island in 1786 (from Rhode Island)
Image 211884 Baseball Champion Providence Grays (from Rhode Island)
Image 22A southbound Northeast Regional train at Kingston Station (from Rhode Island)
Image 23Downtown Providence in 2008 (from Rhode Island)
Image 24Touro Synagogue in Newport is the oldest existing synagogue building in the United States. (from Rhode Island)
Image 25Rocky shoreline in Newport (from Rhode Island)
Image 26A southbound Northeast Regional train at Kingston Station (from Rhode Island)
Image 27County results of the 2020 Presidential election. Joe Biden (D) won every county. (from Rhode Island)
Image 28The Rhode Island Public Transit Authority operates a statewide system of bus transport. (from Rhode Island)
Image 29The Block Island Wind Farm is the first commercial offshore wind farm in the United States. (from Rhode Island)
Image 30Trustom Pond, a lagoon in South Kingstown (from Rhode Island)
Image 31Map of Rhode Island, showing major cities and roads (from Rhode Island)
Image 32University of Rhode Island's Meade Stadium in Kingston (from Rhode Island)
Image 33Slater Mill in Pawtucket is cited as the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution in the United States.
Image 34The Jamestown Verrazzano Bridge (foreground) and Claiborne Pell Newport Bridge (background)
Image 35In 1680, Newport was the third largest Anglo-American city. It remained a prosperous population center until the 1770s. (from Rhode Island)
Image 36The Towers are a Narragansett landmark. (from Rhode Island)
Image 37Köppen climate types of Rhode Island, using 1991–2020 climate normals (from Rhode Island)
Image 38The International Tennis Hall of Fame in Newport (from Rhode Island)
Image 39Ninigret Pond National Wildlife Refuge (from Rhode Island)
Image 40Rhode Island population density map (from Rhode Island)
Image 41Rocky shoreline in Newport (from Rhode Island)
Image 42Touro Synagogue in Newport is the oldest existing synagogue building in the United States. (from Rhode Island)
Image 43The East Bay Bike Path in Riverside
Image 44Interior of The Breakers, a Newport symbol of the Gilded Age (from Rhode Island)
Image 45The East Bay Bike Path in Riverside
Image 46The Pawtucket Red Sox played at McCoy Stadium (from Rhode Island)
Image 47Topographic map of Rhode Island (from Rhode Island)
Image 48The Rhode Island State House in Providence boasts the world's fourth largest self-supported marble dome. (from Rhode Island)
Image 49Köppen climate types of Rhode Island, using 1991–2020 climate normals (from Rhode Island)
Image 50Providence Revolutionaries burned HMS Gaspee in Warwick in protest of British customs laws. (from Rhode Island)
Image 51Providence Revolutionaries burned HMS Gaspee in Warwick in protest of British customs laws. (from Rhode Island)
Image 52Ethnic origins in Rhode Island (from Rhode Island)
Image 53Topographic map of Rhode Island (from Rhode Island)
Image 54Ethnic origins in Rhode Island (from Rhode Island)
Image 55Trustom Pond, a lagoon in South Kingstown (from Rhode Island)
Image 56Interior of The Breakers, a Newport symbol of the Gilded Age (from Rhode Island)
Image 57University of Rhode Island's Meade Stadium in Kingston (from Rhode Island)
Image 581884 Baseball Champion Providence Grays (from Rhode Island)
Image 59The International Tennis Hall of Fame in Newport (from Rhode Island)
Image 60In 1936, on the 300th anniversary of the settlement of Rhode Island in 1636, the U.S. Post Office issued a commemorative stamp, depicting Roger Williams (from Rhode Island)
Image 61The Rhode Island State House in Providence boasts the world's fourth largest self-supported marble dome. (from Rhode Island)
Image 62Downtown Providence in 2008 (from Rhode Island)
Image 63The Block Island Wind Farm is the first commercial offshore wind farm in the United States. (from Rhode Island)
Image 64The Pawtucket Red Sox played at McCoy Stadium (from Rhode Island)

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Easton Beach in Newport, Rhode Island

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