Moving Companies in Rhode Island (RI)

RHODE ISLAND

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Here is a brief introduction to the state of Rhode Island.

Capital City: Providence
Nicknames: Little Rhody, Ocean State, America’s First Resort    

Population over 1 million residents

State’s Flag: The state flag, adopted in 1897, has 13 stars that stand for the 13 original colonies. The state motto, Hope, is displayed on a ribbon below an anchor, which symbolizes hope.

          Measuring 37 miles wide by 48 miles long, Rhode Island has an image of diversity despite its modest size: it wears at once the demeanor of colonial New England, the gloss of gilded-age Newport, and the blue collar of Providence, Woonsocket, and Pawtucket, three of the oldest proving grounds of the American Industrial Revolution.

          Giovanni da Verrazano explores Narragansett Bay in 1524. A safe haven for religious outcasts, Providence, Rhode Island’s oldest city, was founded in 1636 by an exile from colonial Massachusetts, Roger Williams. This religious dissenter, at odds with the older colony’s hard-line Puritan theocracy, held two beliefs that were unorthodox for their time and place: church membership ought not to be a requirement for participation in civic life, and New England lands belonged to their native inhabitants and could not rightfully be granted to settlers by the king. Banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony, Williams founded settlements at the head of Narragansett Bay. They were initially called the Providence Plantations, and the land had been purchased from the Narragansett Indians.

          Following in Williams’s footsteps, other Massachusetts dissidents bought land from the Indians and founded two settlements on an island in the bay. In 1647 these communities were united under a parliamentary patent, and in 1663 King Charles granted the settlements a royal charter. Ironically, the development of the colony, which was founded on principles liberal with regard to the Native Americans, was interrupted when southern New England became the theater of King Philip’s War in 1675-76. Metacomet, a Wampanoag chief who was derisively nicknamed King Philip by the British (he had been given the Christian name Philip by his father), joined with the Narragansett Indians to fight English settlers in the last of New England’s Indian wars. The Indians’ hold was broken in the Great Swamp Fight, which took place near Kingston in 1675.

          In 1790 Rhode Island joins the Union as the 13^th state. Samuel Slater builds nation’s first water-powered spinning machines in Pawtucket. In 1842 Dorr’s Rebellion leads to state 19 constitutional reforms. In 1938 Severe hurricane and tidal wave kill more than 250 people and cause about $100 million in property damage. In 1969 Newport Bridge is built across Narragansett Bay, linking Jamestown and Newport. In 1971 State income tax is imposed. In 1976 Tall ships arrive in Newport for the nation’s Bicentennial. In 1989 start of a recession in which the state’s credit union system collapses. In 1993 Economy begins to recover, and major construction projects take place in downtown Providence.

Service industries: Real estate, banking, insurance, computer programming, law.

Manufacturing: Jewelry and silverware, fabricated metal products, scientific instruments.

Agriculture: Greenhouse and nursery products, milk, potatoes, hay, apples, chickens, eggs, turkeys.

Fishing industry: Lobsters, anglerfish, clams, cod, flounder, squid. 

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