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The White Horse Tavern in Newport (pop. 26,475) was built in 1673 and is the oldest operating tavern in the United States.

first appeared: 2/8/2004

Samuel Slater’s 1790 water-powered cotton mill in Pawtucket ushered in America’s Industrial Revolution. The mill museum today advertises itself as being “one-half mile and 200 years off Interstate 95.”

first appeared: 2/1/2004

The state, which has five counties but no county governments, is divided into 39 municipalities, each with its own form of local government.

first appeared: 1/25/2004

The Touro Synagogue, built in 1763 in Newport (pop. 26,475), is the oldest surviving synagogue in North America.

first appeared: 1/18/2004

The Newport Jazz Festival, first held in 1954, is reportedly the first such outdoor festival devoted only to jazz. It is held every summer in Newport (pop. 26,475).

first appeared: 1/11/2004

The 200-acre Pettaquamscutt Cove National Wildlife Refuge near Kingston (pop. 5,446) can be reached only by canoe or small boat. The cove is considered the most important black duck migratory and wintering habitat in the state.

first appeared: 1/4/2004

Roger Williams, who founded the state in 1636, was banished from Massachusetts a year earlier for believing that civil government had no authority over religious beliefs.

first appeared: 12/28/2003

Our nation’s smallest state also has the longest formal name: The State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.

first appeared: 12/21/2003

The state’s 400 miles of coastline puts every resident within a 30-minute drive of the Atlantic Ocean or Narragansett Bay, earning it the nickname, “the Ocean State.”

first appeared: 12/14/2003

The Blackstone River Valley National Heritage Corridor stretches from Worcester, Mass., to Providence. Dotted with old mills and historic sites, the region is considered the birthplace of America’s Industrial Revolution.

first appeared: 12/7/2003

The Bridgeton Car Barn in Burrillville (pop. 15,796) was built in 1902 to house electric cars, then a major means of regional transit. The electric cars stopped running in 1928, but a portion of the car barn remains.

first appeared: 11/30/2003

On June 7, 1924, the Brown University Bruins and the Providence College Friars played one of the longest collegiate baseball games on record. After 20 innings, victory went to the Friars by a score of 1-0.

first appeared: 11/23/2003

Settlers’ Rock on Block Island (pop. 1,010) is where the island’s first settlers stepped ashore in 1661. The rock is carved with the names of those first colonizers.

first appeared: 11/16/2003

The Nine Men’s Misery memorial in Cumberland (pop. 31,840), one of the oldest known monuments to United States veterans, commemorates the colonists killed in Pierce’s Fight during King Philip’s War in 1676.

first appeared: 11/9/2003

Lions and dinosaurs are among the 80 figures sculpted from shrubbery at the Green Animals Topiary Farm in Portsmouth (pop. 17,149).

first appeared: 11/2/2003

Newport (pop. 26,475) is home to the Newport International Film Festival. The event, held each June, offers film buffs a program of innovative American and international films.

first appeared: 10/26/2003

Swamp Meadow Covered Bridge in Foster (pop. 4,274), the state’s only remaining covered bridge on a public road, was built in 1994.

first appeared: 10/19/2003

Although now retired, Providence’s Dancing Cop Tony Lepore returns to the corner of Westminster and Dorrance streets every December to direct traffic, using half-spins and hand movements.

first appeared: 10/12/2003

Johnnycakes, a traditional Rhode Island pancake, are made with stone-ground, white flint corn. The name might have been a corruption of “journey cakes,” because they made good snacks for travelers.

first appeared: 10/5/2003

Louis’ Diner, the largest remaining intact diner in the United States, recently moved from Baltimore to Rhode Island. The lunch wagon will serve as a living exhibit and centerpiece for the American Diner Museum, scheduled to open in Providence in 2005.

first appeared: 9/28/2003

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