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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…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM5AF_the-black-regiment_Portsmouth-RI.html
Bloody Run Brook, First Black Militia,R. Island Regt.August 29, 1778.
In honor ofthe first Black slavesand freemen who fought inthe Battle of Rhode Islandas members of theFirst Rhode Island RegimentThe Black Regiment
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1B8_nine-mens-misery_Cumberland-RI.html
On this spot where they were slain by the Indians were buried the nine soldiers captured in Pierce's fight. March 26, 1676.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMDO_first-successful-cotton-mill-in-america_Pawtucket-RI.html
In commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the First Successful Cotton Mill in America this tablet was presented to the Old Slater Mill Association, present owners of this historic building in honor of the textile pioneer whose name they perpetu…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMDN_the-old-slater-mill_Pawtucket-RI.html
The birthplace of the cotton manufacturing industry in America. Here in 1793 Samuel Slater, Moses Brown, and William Almy established the first successful cotton factory in the United States.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMDM_wilkinson-mill_Pawtucket-RI.html
National Historic Mechanical Engineering LandmarkWilkinson Mill, 1810. Site of the shop of David Wilkinson (1771-1852)Father of the American Machine Tool Industry.