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2. Kingston Pease - Wikipedia

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   Kingston Pease. Kingston Pease (sometimes spelled Pees, Peas, or Peares), was a property owner and prominent member of the free Black community of 18th-century Newport, Rhode Island. [1] Along with Newport Gardner, Zingo Stevens, and Caesar Lyndon, Pease formed the Free African Union Society in 1780. [2] In 1789, he was excommunicated from the ...

3. Best business savings accounts for 2024 - AOL

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   Chase Business Total Savings account: Best for branch access. First Internet Bank of Indiana Money Market Savings account: Best for large balances. NBKC Bank Business Money Market Account: Best ...

4. Whaley's Hollow, Rhode Island - Wikipedia

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   Whaley's Hollow, Rhode Island. Coordinates: 41.719°N 71.669°W. Whaley's Hollow (also known as Pottersville and Maple Valley) [1] is a village in Coventry, Rhode Island . Thomas Whaley was an early settler in the area who operated a saw mill and whose home still stands today on Maple Valley Road. John Waterman built Waterman’s Tavern around ...

5. History of Rhode Island - Wikipedia

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   Rhode Island was the first colony in America to declare independence on May 4, 1776, a full two months before the United States Declaration of Independence. [11] Rhode Islanders had attacked the British warship HMS Gaspee in 1772 as one of the first acts of war leading to the American Revolution.

6. Warwick Civic Center Historic District - Wikipedia

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   Prior to its demolition the Old Fire Station was also included. The first three buildings line the north side of Post Road just east of the junction of US Route 1 and Rhode Island Route 117, where the village of Apponaug was established in the 17th century. All were built between 1890 and 1925; the fire station, which then housed social ...

7. A More Perfect Union (film) - Wikipedia

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   A More Perfect Union: America Becomes a Nation is a 1989 American feature film dramatizing the events of the 1787 Constitutional Convention.The film was produced by Brigham Young University to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the drafting of the United States Constitution, and many professors from BYU's School of Fine Arts and Communications were involved in its production either as actors ...

8. Oak Glen (Portsmouth, Rhode Island) - Wikipedia

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   Oak Glen (Portsmouth, Rhode Island) /  41.55917°N 71.28139°W  / 41.55917; -71.28139. Oak Glen is a historic house at 745 Union Street in Portsmouth, Rhode Island. It is a -story wood-frame structure, with a highly pitched gambrel roof and jerkin-headed (clipped) gable ends. The house was built about 1870 by Samuel and Julia Ward Howe as ...

9. Union Station (Providence) - Wikipedia

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   The original Union Station was Providence's first, opening in 1848 to accommodate the needs of the newly thriving city. This building was designed by 21 year old Rhode Island architect, Thomas Alexander Tefft in the Lombard Romanesque style. Construction of the station was supervised by Tallman & Bucklin. Extending 720 feet along the edge of ...