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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM284M_the-wilkinson-mill_Pawtucket-RI.html
David Wilkinson (1771-1852), a blacksmith from Smithfield, Rhode Island, moved to Pawtucket in the early 1780s. Wilkinson invented new machines, including a steamboat, which he demonstrated in Pawtucket in 1792 (15 years before Robert Fulton's ste…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM26A1_a-livelie-experiment_Providence-RI.html
...at last to proclaim a true and absolute Soul-Freedom to all the people of the land impartially, so that no person be forced to pray nor pay, otherwise than as his Soul believeth and consenteth.
Roger Williams, from Butler's Fourth Paper (1652…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM269Z_realizing-providence_Providence-RI.html
Roger Williams said there was no amount of money that could have purchased Providence.
In 1636, Williams and the Narragansett tribal leaders, or Sachems, Cononicus and Miantonomo, negotiated for the land that became Providence. Together, they ag…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM269X_seasonal-gathering_Providence-RI.html
For thousands of years before European settlement, people came from across the region to the Great Salt Cove to hunt, fish, and farm. The Narragansett, Wampanoag, Massachusett, and Nipmuc all used the trails that intersected here on the upper Narr…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM269V_roger-williams-national-memorial_Providence-RI.html
Welcome to the birthplace of religious freedom in the United States. Roger Williams, fleeing religious persecution in England and Massachusetts Bay Colony, founded Providence here in 1636. The original inhabitants, the Narragansett and Wampanoag, …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2683_a-place-for-your-ideas_Providence-RI.html
There is no National Memorial to Roger Williams here [in Washington], unlike the monuments to other national heroes like Washington, Jefferson, and Lincoln. Our National Memorial is in Rhode Island, where he lived and left us a philosophical legac…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM21C4_the-wellspring-of-providence_Providence-RI.html
A freshwater spring attracted Roger Williams to this site and anchored the community.
Williams built his house across the street, and religious and civil meetings took place around its "gushing" waters.
The spring remained in community…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM21C3_around-the-corner-from-market-square_Providence-RI.html
Providence's Downtown was not always located in its present location across the river.
The first town center was located along the Moshassock River and North Main Street near St. John's Episcopal Church.
The second Downtown was located around th…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM21BU_the-moshassuck-river_Providence-RI.html
A Short River Through Time
"Mooshausick," was the name given by the native Narragansett tribe to the body of water that flows into the Providence River at Confluence Park. It means "river where the moose watered."
The Moshassuck originates in …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM21BT_witness-to-history_Providence-RI.html
If this building could speak, it would tell the remarkable tale of a city's transformation.
The Antram-Gray House, the oldest surviving commercial building in Providence, was built around 1730 as a residence and distillery.
It soon found itself…