Rhode Island is the smallest state in size in the United States. It covers an area of 1,214 square miles. Its distances North to South are 48 miles and East to West 37 miles.
Rhode Island was the last of the original thirteen colonies to become a state.
Rhode Island never ratified the 18th Amendment prohibition.
Judge Darius Baker imposed the first jail sentence for speeding in an automobile on August 28, 1904 in Newport.
St. Mary's, Rhode Island's oldest Roman Catholic parish was founded in 1828. The church is best known as the site of the wedding of Jacqueline Bouvier to John Fitzgerald Kennedy in 1953.
The state was home to the first open golf tournament. The event occurred in 1895.
Rhode Island has no county government. It is divided into 39 municipalities each having its own form of local government.
The first circus in the United States was in Newport in 1774.
Rhode Island is home to the Tennis Hall of Fame.
Rhode Island's official state name is Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.
George M. Cohan was born in Providence in 1878. He wrote, "I'm a Yankee Doodle Dandy," "You're a Grand Old Flag," and a wide variety of other musical entertainment.
Roger Williams, founder of Rhode Island, established the first practical working model of Democracy after he was banished from Plymouth, Massachusetts because of his "extreme views" concerning freedom of speech and religion.
Thomas Jefferson and John Adams publicly acknowledged Roger Williams, as the originator of the concepts and principles reflected in The First Amendment. Among those principles were freedom of religion, freedom of speech, and freedom of public assembly.
The era know as The Industrial Revolution started in Rhode Island with the development and construction in 1790 of Samuel Slater's water-powered cotton mill in Pawtucket. The first British troops sent from England to squash the revolution landed in Newport.
The first Afro-American regiment to fight for America made a gallant stand against the British in the Battle of Rhode Island.
Jerimoth Hill is the state's highest point at 812 feet above sea level.
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