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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMKIT_seventh-day-baptist-ministers-monument_Hopkinton-RI.html
(on the North side the following) 1680 - 1899This Monument is a Memorial to the early Pastors of the Second Seventh-day Baptist Church in America, whose remains lie buried within the enclosing circle. They were stalwart men and sound preachers. Th…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMKAT_avondale_Westerly-RI.html
Founded in 1750 as LotteryvilleSo named from the 1750 land lottery granted by the Rhode Island Assembly to Captain Joseph Pendleton to recoup the loss of his brigantine and its cargo on a return from the West Indies. Renamed Avondale in 1893 when …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMKAR_first-seventh-day-baptist-church-of-hopkinton_Hopkinton-RI.html
Seventh Day Baptists, members of a church of like faith in Newport, Rhode Island until 1708, first worshipped in this community in 1672. The first meeting house was built in 1680. The nearby-by church, which replaced the original building, was ere…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJQT_7th-day-baptist-churches-of-hopkinton-and-westerly_Hopkinton-RI.html
Here for more than a century was the religious, business and civil center of Westerly. Near by in private homes, the people met in town meetings. Here crossed paths from what is now Hopkinton, Richmond and Westerly. Here were the first mill dam an…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJJ6_carter-jackson-monument_South-Kingstown-RI.html
East sideThis pillar is erected to the memory of William Jackson of Virginia, who was murdered upon this spot by ship captain Thomas Carter of Newport, Rhode Island who, having been ship-wrecked and rendered penniless thereby, and being overtaken …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMF4M_the-great-swamp-fight_South-Kingstown-RI.html
Attackedwithin their fort upon this islandthe Narragansett Indiansmade their last standin King Philip's War andwere crushed by the united forcesof the Massachusetts Connecticutand Plymouth Coloniesin the"Great Swamp Fight"Sunday 19 December 1675
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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMB9E_fresh-pond_New-Shoreham-RI.html
Here original settlers lived in caves and shelters. Site of first church 1772PastorsOliver Dodge, Trustrum DodgeNearby site of firstschool house, windmill, pound,precious spring.Indian burying hill
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMB9D_mohegan-bluffs_New-Shoreham-RI.html
1590 A war party of 40 Mohegan Indianswas driven over these bluffs byBlock Island Indians - The Manisseans.Along this shore manyvessels were wrecked
S. Ann Hope · S.S. LeydenMars · SpartanJohn Davis · MunagoS.S. Meteor &mid…