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The 1693 Eleazor Arnold House in Lincoln (pop. 20,898) is an example of a stone-ender, a rare architectural style in which the side of the house that carries the chimney is made of stone while the other three sides are clapboard.

first appeared: 10/9/2005

Second baseman Davey Lopes of East Providence (pop. 48,688) spent 16 seasons (1972-1987) in major league baseball, nine with the Los Angeles Dodgers. He was part of the "Big Blue Wrecking Crew" infield that included Steve Garvey at first, Bill Russell at shortstop and Ron Cey at third.

first appeared: 9/25/2005

The most decorated woman in the annals of Rhode Island golf, Julie Greene of Barrington (pop. 16,819), is an 11-time state Women’s Golf Association champion. She garnered her first title in 1963.

first appeared: 9/18/2005

In the 1950s, Jimmy Van Alen of Newport (pop. 26,475) devised the Van Alen Simplified Scoring System (VASSS), which evolved into the tennis tiebreaker used throughout the world today. He also helped establish the International Tennis Hall of Fame and Museum in Newport.

first appeared: 9/11/2005

Janet Moreau of Pawtucket (pop. 72,958) was a gold medal-winning member of the U.S. 4-by-100-meter relay team at the 1952 Olympics in Helsinki, Finland. As a student at Boston University, she often trained with the men’s track team.

first appeared: 8/28/2005

Beechwood, one of the celebrated mansions of Newport (pop. 26,475), was the former holiday home of William Backhouse Astor Jr. and his family. He was the grandson of John Jacob Astor, who became the richest man in America during the early 19th century by investing in the fur trade and real estate.

first appeared: 8/14/2005

Norman Taber of Providence was a bronze medalist in the 1,500 meters at the 1912 Olympics in Stockholm, Sweden. Three years later, he ran a mile in 4 minutes and 12.6 seconds to set a world record that stood until 1923.

first appeared: 7/31/2005

During King Philip’s War (1675-76), the last major effort by southern New England’s Indians to drive out English settlers, Dexter’s Ledge, in Central Falls’ (pop. 18,928) Jenks Park, was used as a lookout. The war—led by Metacom, the Pokanoket chief called King Philip by the English—destroyed 12 frontier towns.

first appeared: 7/17/2005

The Crescent Park Carousel in East Providence (pop. 48,688) includes 62 horses and four chariots carved by Charles I.D. Loof around 1895. The carousel was designated the state’s official American folk art symbol in 1985 and a National Historic Landmark in 1987.

first appeared: 6/19/2005

In Fort Adams State Park overlooking the harbor of Newport (pop. 26,475), the Museum of Yachting boasts a vast collection of classic yachts, a gallery devoted to the America’s Cup sailing competitions and the Single-Handed Sailors’ Hall of Fame.

first appeared: 6/5/2005

The May Breakfast has been a unique Rhode Island tradition since 1867. The first was held at the Old Quaker Meeting House in Cranston and raised $155.50 for a new church building. Communities throughout the state continue the culinary, and fund-raising, tradition.

first appeared: 5/22/2005

Perched on Dumplings Island in Narragansett Bay near Jamestown (pop. 5,622), a 1905 three-and-a-half-story house known, fittingly, as Clingstone has been described as an "overgrown bungalow-chalet."

first appeared: 5/8/2005

Located on 375 acres overlooking Mount Hope Bay in Bristol (pop. 22,469), Brown University’s Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology houses nearly 100,000 artifacts from the native peoples of the Americas, Africa, Asia and the Pacific.

first appeared: 4/24/2005

Linden Place, the 1810 Bristol (pop. 22,469) mansion, was featured in the 1974 film The Great Gatsby.

first appeared: 4/10/2005

Fantasy and horror novelist H.P. Lovecraft, hailed as the 20th-century Edgar Allan Poe, was born in 1890 at his family’s Angell Street home in Providence. He called his genre "cosmic horror."

first appeared: 3/27/2005

With an ample food supply and a lack of natural predators, coyotes are now present throughout Rhode Island, with the exception of Block Island.

first appeared: 3/27/2005

Brad Faxon of Barrington (pop. 16,819) has won seven Professional Golfers Association Tour events since joining the PGA Tour in 1984.

first appeared: 3/13/2005

Construction began in 1824 on Fort Adams, which overlooks Narragansett Bay near Newport (pop. 26,475). Today, the fortification is the centerpiece of the Fort Adams State Park.

first appeared: 2/27/2005

In 1775, the Market House was the gathering place for plotters of the Providence Tea Party, organized by local supporters of Boston’s Colonial patriots. From the 18th century until the 1920s, the house served as a marketplace and the location of Providence’s city government.

first appeared: 2/13/2005

One of the most romantic mansions in Newport (pop. 26,475), Rosecliff was modeled after the Grand Trianon in Versailles, France. Among the 1902 mansion’s features is a heart-shaped staircase.

first appeared: 1/30/2005

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