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Stanton was born in Charlestown in the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations in 1739. During the French and Indian War he served in the expedition against Quebec 1759. In June 1762 he was elected captain of the Artillery Company of Westerly, Charlestown and Hopkinton, an independent company of the Rhode Island Militia which still ...
The Reverend Harold Sherman Mars Sr. (born 1911, died Nov 25, 1989 aged 78) [1] was a prominent Narragansett Native American Christian preacher in Rhode Island and Upstate New York. He was a pastor at several evangelical churches in Kingston, Rhode Island and Rochester, New York. Besides these posts, Mars also travelled as a visiting preacher ...
The Charlestown, RI Chamber of Commerce holds an annual seafood and lobster festival in the first week of August. Local businesses and vendors set up booths for various seafood based events. [ 14 ] The Seafood Festival has been named one of the Top 100 Events in America by the American Tour Bus Association in 1988, 1996 and 2008.
Capital punishment was first abolished in Rhode Island in 1852, reinstated in 1873 and was finally abolished in 1984. [1] 53 people were ever executed in Rhode Island, 51 by hanging, 1 by hanging, drawing and quartering and 1 by hanging and gibbeting. [2] Only 8 of the executions were after Rhode Island’s statehood.
The Indian Burial Ground is a historic Native American cemetery on Narrow Lane in Charlestown, Rhode Island. The small (0.1-acre (0.040 ha)) cemetery is believed to have been the burying ground for leaders of the Narragansett and Niantic tribes. It is now fenced off by an iron post and rail fence, erected in the late 19th century. [2]
[2] Name on the Register [3] Image Date listed [4] Location City or town Description 1: Babcock House: Babcock House: January 1, 1976 (Main St. Charlestown: 2: Carolina Village Historic District
The Joseph Stanton House (also known as the Wilcox Tavern) is a historic house at 5153 Old Post Road (U.S. Route 1) in Charlestown, Rhode Island.The main house is a 2-½ story wood-frame structure built some time before 1739 by Joseph Stanton II, and it is where his son Joseph Stanton, Jr., who would serve as one of Rhode Island's first United States Senators, was born.
Buildings and structures in Charlestown, Rhode Island (10 P) Pages in category "Charlestown, Rhode Island" The following 20 pages are in this category, out of 20 total.