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Rhode Island history exhumed.
Rhode Island Cuisine:
Aquidneck Honey, spotted at Ocean State Spice and Tea Merchants, Providence.
aquidneckhoney.com
www.facebook.com/OceanStateSp...
Quahog Museum:
Beverage cozy from Arcadia Pizza, East Greenwich, circa 2016.
www.arcadia.pizza
Today in Rhode Island History:
1808: The African Benevolent Society of Newport opens a school, "the object of which is the FREE instruction of all the coloured people in town, who are inclined to that end."
Quahog Museum: Ephemera:
Providence Opera House program, November 1890.
Today in Rhode Island History:
1916: Rhode Island observes Fire Prevention Day on the 45th anniversary of the Great Chicago Fire.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_Pr...
Quahog Museum:
One gallon tub of hand-shucked fresh chopped clams from Galilean Seafoods, Bristol, undated. Founded 1978 and apparently still in business.
Today in Rhode Island History:
1841: At the People's Convention, a petition is presented by blacks in Rhode Island for the right to vote.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorr_Re...
Quahog Museum: Commemorative & Souvenir Plates:
”The Cathedral of St. John, Providence, Rhode Island.”
”...founded as King's Church in 1722, renamed Saint John's Church in 1794, established as the Cathedral of the Diocese of Rhode Island in 1929. —1954”
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cathedr...
Today in Rhode Island History:
2006: Coventry resident Ron Wallace earns a place in the Guinness Book of World Records with his 1,502-pound pumpkin, the largest grown in the world to date.
wallacewow.com
Quahog Museum: Fridge Magnets:
Gray’s PX and Fountain, 195 Washington Road, Barrington, circa 1989.
Today in Rhode Island History:
1949: Providence City Council orders condemnation of the right of way for the Olneyville Expressway.
sosri.access.preservica.com/uncategorize...
Quahog Museum: Ephemera:
Bostitch Employees’ Credit Union 1981 Appointment Calendar.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bostitch
Today in Rhode Island History:
1876: It's "Rhode Island Day" at the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centenn...
From Representative Men and Old Families of Rhode Island by J.H. Beers and Company, 1908:
James B. Church.
ancestors.familysearch.org/en/LZ87-1K1/...
Today in Rhode Island History:
1777: General Nathanael Greene and the Rhode Island division hold the left wing in the Battle of Germantown, Pennsylvania.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathana...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_...
Quahog Museum: Pins:
”Friends [of] Kingston Station,” undated.
www.facebook.com/groups/kings...
Olde Timey Photography:
“College Hill.” From Souvenir Book of Providence, Rhode Island, circa 1900.
Today in Rhode Island History:
1938: In the wake of the big hurricane, the Providence Journal resumes publication from its own presses, Providence department stores reopen, and limited light and elevator service are restored.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1938_Ne...
Quahog Museum: Ephemera:
Providence Performing Arts Center tickets, October to December 2001.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provide...
Today in Rhode Island History:
1957: Senator Theodore Francis Green observes his 90th birthday and is the oldest member ever to serve in Congress.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodor...
Quahog Museum: Patches:
Warwick Soccer Ass’n, Chartered 1969, undated.
Olde Timey Photography:
“The new fire station of The Three Ones, Exchange Place.” From 80 Photographic Views of Providence, circa 1900.
Today in Rhode Island History:
1868: Reverend Mahlon A. Van Horne, new pastor of Union Congregational Church, arrives in Newport.
riheritagehalloffame.com/Reverend-Mah...
Quahog Museum: Ephemera:
Save the Bay bumper sticker, undated.
savebay.org
From Picturesque Narragansett by Robert Grieve (1888):
“The Rockingham, J.G. Burns, proprietor.”
www.narragansetthistoricalsociety.com/the-rockingh...
Today in Rhode Island History:
1919: Foster Browning of Matunuck catches a forty-eight-pound striped bass with his bare hands in shoal water.
Quahog Museum: Glassware:
Shot glass from Dave & Buster’s, Providence Place Mall, Providence, undated.
www.daveandbusters.com/us/en/about/...
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