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Today, when only two rail lines exist across Rhode Island, the main Amtrak line and the Providence and Worcester tracks, and stations on these routes are very limited, it may come as a surprise to learn that in 1892, fourteen rail lines snaked their ways throughout the state, carrying passengers and freight to many small towns.
A trip to Newport from Providence? Not a ...
In early 1778, from the headquarters of the Continental Army in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, General George Washington’s aide-de-camp, John Laurens, wrote several letters to his father Henry who had recently succeeded John Hancock as the president of the Continental Congress. While most of the Continental Army was suffering through a harsh winter in makeshift huts, the British...
Christopher Greene was one of Rhode Island’s greatest heroes of the Revolutionary War, but his life was tragically cut short. He was appointed a lieutenant in the Kentish Guards, an independent company formed in East Greenwich in September 1774. He became a captain and commanded one of two divisions under Colonel Benedict Arnold in the legendary Expedition to Queb...
Stephen Hopkins (1707–85), statesman, pamphleteer, and signer of the Declaration of Independence, was born on March 7, 1707, in Providence easterly of a former Indian village called Mashapaug. This site was set off from Providence in 1754, becoming part of the new town of Cranston. It was reannexed in 1868 and is located today in the Elmwood section of Providence.