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Historical Markers and War Memorials in Providence County, Rhode Island
Providence is the county seat for Providence County
Adjacent to Providence County, Rhode Island
Bristol County(13) ► Kent County(16) ► Windham County, Connecticut(92) ► Bristol County, Massachusetts(184) ► Norfolk County, Massachusetts(102) ► Worcester County, Massachusetts(343) ►
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Dedicated to the Memory
of the Men and Women, who
So Valiantly Served in the
Defense of Their Country
Naldor P. Berard
Born August 10, 1921
Died at Age 22
September 11, 1943
Enlisted in the U.S. Navy July
22, 1942. Was Seaman 1st . . . — — Map (db m191223) WM
Due to land disputes and broken peace treaties between local natives and early English settlers, King Philip's War took place for 14 months during 1675 and 1676. Captain Michael Pierce's fight with the natives occured on this spot in March of 1676. . . . — — Map (db m45093) HM
This bell was cast by George Holbrook in East Medway MA in 1840, and was installed at 22 Broad St. It remained there until 1977 when it was dismantled by the Knights of Columbus and brought to the Hayden Library and dedicated to the departed . . . — — Map (db m55663) HM
Composed of men who in the dark days of the Civil War
from 1861 to 1865 offered their lives that this Union
might be preserved ★ ★ ★ There is a debt this nation
can never pay that is the debt of gratitude to the soldiers . . . — — Map (db m198157) WM
Banking on the Riverbank's Value
This house exists because of Wilbur Kelly, who owned the land and a small mill just up the canal. In his younger years, Wilbur Kelly had worked as a ship captain in a fleet owned by Brown and Ives. Later, he . . . — — Map (db m195922) HM
Kelly’s Mill Left An Impression
Do you see a rectangular footprint in front of you? It marks the site where the Kelly Mill stood. Starting in the early 1800s, the mill used water from the Blackstone River to power its spinning machines. . . . — — Map (db m195921) HM
1914 1918
Dedicated to the Glory of God, the Exhaltation
of Patriotism and the Promotion of Education
in Honor of Those from Lincoln
Who Served in the World War — — Map (db m195925) WM
The Mercantile Center
The two brick and stone buildings in front of you played an important role in the planned mill village of Slatersville. Known as the Commercial Blocks they were built by the Slater Company for the use of their workers. . . . — — Map (db m197767) HM
James Slater Memorial Park In Honor of James S. Slater Born Apr.23, 1841 Died Nov. 11, 1915 Town Clerk No Smithfield 1903-1914 General Assembly 1914-1915
To whom the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations owes recognition for the . . . — — Map (db m197766) HM
Dedicated in Honor of
The patriotic Men and Women of the
Town of North Smithfield
Who Served Their Country in Time of War
Vietnam Era
★Leon Atterbridge · ★Rene Bois · ★Frederick Carter · ★Robert Labrecque · . . . — — Map (db m197769) WM
Vietnam War Memorial
From the people of
The town of North Smithfield
In recognition of those who defended
Freedom during the Vietnam War
and to those Men and Women
who sacrificed their lives that we may
live in Freedom and . . . — — Map (db m192605) WM
Dedicated to
The Men and Women
of Burrillville who
Answered the Call for
Enduring Freedom
Iraqi Freedom
and the Global
War on Terrorism
Berard-Desjarlais Post 88 2005 — — Map (db m191222) WM
Just six years after building Slater Mill, Samuel Slater's partners, William Almy and Obadiah Brown, bought another mill on their own. They even copied some of Slater's machine designs for their mill.
This annoyed Slater so much that he . . . — — Map (db m151663) HM
Tradition holds that Ebenezer Jenks built the house in front of you in the mid-1700s. He was the grandson of Pawtucket's first settler, Joseph Jenks, Jr.
By the end of the 1700s, Sylvanus Brown, a mechanic owned the place. He welcomed Samuel . . . — — Map (db m151660) HM
Samuel Slater came here from England in 1789. He had just finished a seven-year apprenticeship at an English cotton mill, which gave him great knowledge of the water-powered spinning process developed over the previous two decades.
With the . . . — — Map (db m151668) HM
Built in 1685, this is the oldest standing house in Pawtucket and is on the National Register of Historic Places. It is now operated by the Pawtucket Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution.
For tour Hours Contact the Park Office — — Map (db m45087) HM
In commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the First Successful Cotton Mill in America this tablet was presented to the Old Slater Mill Association, present owners of this historic building in honor of the textile pioneer whose name they . . . — — Map (db m1613) HM
Control of waterpower meant control of economic, political, and social power.
A mill developer's first "power grab" was to build a walled dam. This created a pond that stored water to power the mill.
Other villagers didn't willingly . . . — — Map (db m151665) HM
First Rhode Island woman to make the supreme sacrifice as an Army Nurse with the Armed Forces of the United States in France during the World War
"She laid him with the dead as she turned to soothe the living and bind the wounds . . . — — Map (db m151678) WM
1885-1918
During his flying career, Jack McGee, one of Pawtucket's most famous sons and a pioneer in this country's aviation history, used this general area of Darlington to make many of his historic flights.
On June 11th 1918 he was killed . . . — — Map (db m45089) HM
This is the oldest stander carousel in the world it was built by pioneer craftsman Charles I. D. Looff in 1895, and was installed in Slater park in 1910.
Open weekends April, May, June, September, October and daily in July and August. Available . . . — — Map (db m45091) HM
David Wilkinson and his father built this mill together, finishing it in 1811. It made sense to build it next to Slater Mill. When Slater married Wilkinson's sister, Hannah, the families grew even closer and shared several ventures.
At . . . — — Map (db m151661) HM
Samuel Slater (1768-1835) opened this water-powered cotton spinning factory in 1793. Slater had left England in 1789 with working knowledge of mechanical yarn-making, and in Pawtucket he discovered artisans with the skills necessary for starting . . . — — Map (db m118316) HM
The American Industrial Revolution began right here. In 1793, Samuel Slater teamed up with investors and local artisans. Together, they built a first for the United States—a successful cotton spinning mill that was run by water power. . . . — — Map (db m151657) HM
This building is a contributing structure of the
Downtown Pawtucket
Historic District
in the
National Register of Historic Places
United States Department of the Interior
The Deborah Cook Sayles . . . — — Map (db m151674) HM
This building is a contributing structure of the
Downtown Pawtucket
Historic District
in the
National Register of Historic Places
United States Department of the Interior
[Top plaque:]
The . . . — — Map (db m151672) HM
Honor to our gallant men and women
who served their nation
in the military during times of peril
They gave their yesterdays
in order to insure our tomorrows
Lest we forget
A grateful community
wishes to acknowledge all . . . — — Map (db m151653) WM
Slater Mill was America's first successful water-powered cotton spinning mill. For a small fee, tour the mill and learn how Samuel Slater and local craftsmen created machines that spun cotton into thread. Explore the Wilkinson machine shop and see a . . . — — Map (db m151659) HM
The American Industrial Revolution began at Slater Mill. Here, in 1793, Samuel Slater, with Providence investors and Pawtucket artisans, built the first water-powered, cotton spinning factory in the United States. Beginning with this wooden mill, . . . — — Map (db m118324) HM
To perpetuate the memory of all who with unfailing loyalty defended on land and sea the nation's honor in the War with Spain, Phillipine Insurrection and China Relief Expedition. — — Map (db m151652) WM
Sylvanus Brown lived in this cottage from 1784 to 1824. Brown's proven pattern-making and carpentry skills earned him a place at Samuel Slater's side. Brown had also built water-powered mills and visited European mill sites. Between 1789 and . . . — — Map (db m118327) HM
The birthplace of the cotton manufacturing industry in America. Here in 1793 Samuel Slater, Moses Brown, and William Almy established the first successful cotton factory in the United States. — — Map (db m1612) HM
When Samuel Slater first came here, the village had everything he needed to succeed. Pawtucket Falls provided ample waterpower. That energy was already powering local machine shops. Those shops were run by skilled mechanics who could assist with . . . — — Map (db m151670) HM
David Wilkinson (1771-1852), a blacksmith from Smithfield, Rhode Island, moved to Pawtucket in the early 1780s. Wilkinson invented new machines, including a steamboat, which he demonstrated in Pawtucket in 1792 (15 years before Robert Fulton's . . . — — Map (db m118248) HM
Dedicated to
the memory of all
the members of the
Major
Walter G.
Gatchell
VFW Post 306
and its Auxiliary
Past Present & Future
Founded
1920
Auxiliary
1921
[Left side of the memorial:] . . . — — Map (db m151651) WM
The water flowing through the millrace below you was brought here to do work. It was diverted from the Blackstone River on your right and will flow back into it downstream. Wilkinson Mill, the stone building on your left, shared this raceway with . . . — — Map (db m151667) HM
Controlling water power during the early years of the Industrial Revolution also meant gaining control of political, economic, and social power. Re-engineering water courses in this area often brought lawsuits and anger. In August 1792, four . . . — — Map (db m118317) HM
National Historic Mechanical Engineering Landmark
Wilkinson Mill, 1810.
Site of the shop of David Wilkinson (1771–1852)
Father of the American Machine Tool Industry. — — Map (db m1611) HM
Morris Brown House
has been placed on the
National Register
of Historic Places
by the United States
Department of the Interior
Built 1793 — — Map (db m151679) HM
The Brown Bear was introduced in 1904 as the athletic mascot and symbol of the College. Throughout the decades, the Bear has been represented in verse, song, and image, as well as by live bears named Bruno, costumed students, and campus statuary. . . . — — Map (db m151684) HM
By the end of the Revolutionary War, the center of town had moved to several blocks south of this point. From 1820 to 1850 the Blackstone Canal and Providence and Worcester Railroad were built along the western edge of this plot, and Canal Street . . . — — Map (db m106872) HM
There is no National Memorial to Roger Williams here [in Washington], unlike the monuments to other national heroes like Washington, Jefferson, and Lincoln. Our National Memorial is in Rhode Island, where he lived and left us a philosophical . . . — — Map (db m115205) HM
This intersection was the earliest center of colonial Providence. A grist mill stood just north, at the falls of Moshassuck River, and a tannery and taverns were nearby across the street. In 1676 the natives of many tribes united against the New . . . — — Map (db m56152) HM
Providence’s Downtown was not always located in its present location across the river.
The first town center was located along the Moshassock River and North Main Street near St. John’s Episcopal Church.
The second Downtown was located around . . . — — Map (db m107762) HM
Former site of the Bethel A.M.E. Church 1866-1961
Beginning as a free mission in 1795, members met in the African Meeting House before purchasing this lot in 1820. The services were held in the homes of the members for over 40 years. In 1866, . . . — — Map (db m30314) HM
This memorial recognizes Brown University’s connection to the trans-Atlantic slave trade and the work of Africans and African-Americans, enslaved and free, who helped build our university, Rhode island, and the nation.
In 2003 Brown . . . — — Map (db m107414) HM
Near this spot the men and women of Providence showed their resistance to the unfair taxation by burning British Taxed tea in the night March 2nd 1775 — — Map (db m56349) HM
Has been designated a Registered National Historic Landmark
Under the provisions of the Historic Sites Act of August 21, 1935
This site possesses exceptional value in commemorating and illustrating the history of the United States
US . . . — — Map (db m56155) HM
This edifice of which the older portion was begun in the year of Our Lord 1760 and first occupied in 1762 was used as Court and State House by the Colony and State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations until the year 1900 — — Map (db m56158) HM
Providence has changed dramatically since its founding in 1636, from the early settlement enriched by farmland, to the town competing with Newport for trade, to the thriving capital it is today. This evolution can be evaluated through a case . . . — — Map (db m151732) HM
Members of the Afro-American community met in the vestry of this historic church in 1819 to establish the 1st African Meeting House in Rhode Island. — — Map (db m57750) HM
This memorial plaque is presented
by the
American Baptist Churches USA
to
First Baptist Church in America
Providence, Rhode Island
On the Occasion of its 375th Anniversary
1638 - 2013
Who from its founding by Roger . . . — — Map (db m122521) HM
Fleur-De-Lys Studio
Has been designated a National Historic Landmark
This building possesses National Significance in Commemorating the History of the United States of America
1992
National Park Services
United States Department of the . . . — — Map (db m57749) HM
Near this spot lived Gabriel Bernon a Huguenot Refugee
Born Larochelle France April 6, 1644
Died Providence February 1, 1736
Merchant Colonizer Churchman — — Map (db m56148) HM
Upon this corner stood Sabin Tavern in which on the evening of June 9th 1772 the party met and organized to destroy the H.R.M. schooner Gaspee, in the destruction of which was shed the first blood in the American Revolution. — — Map (db m56292) HM
Erected in 1822 by Nicholas Brown, 1786
Trustee 1791 – 1825, Treasurer 1796 – 1825, Fellow 1825 – 1841, as a gift to the University which bears his name.
Renovated in 1891 under the direction of Marshall Woods, 1845, . . . — — Map (db m107405) HM
This building honors the memory of
Horace Mann
1796-1859
Brown University class of 1819
Father of American public education, Statesman, reformer, and advocate for the abolition of slavery — — Map (db m59206) HM
The home of John Brown Reflecting the wealth and position gained from his lucrative career as a slave trader, privateer, China trade merchant and Patriot. — — Map (db m56014) HM
Lippitt House
has been designated a
National
Historic Landmark
This site possesses national significance
in commemorating the history of the
United States of America
1976
National Park Service
United States . . . — — Map (db m151683) HM
In honor of Luigi Scala Grand Venerable, Order Sons of Italy 1934 — 1971 Editor, bank president, counselor to immigrants, Italian historian, radio commentator, a man of rare culture and learning. He nobly furthered love for America . . . — — Map (db m193070) HM
The building adjacent to this site housed
Pembroke College
Founded in 1891 with six students, the Woman's College in Brown University formally established in 1896 and renamed Pembroke College in 1928. The first women to receive degrees were . . . — — Map (db m56330) HM
From this armory there went for service at the
front, during the War for the Union 1861-1865,
First Battery: Captain Charles H. Tompkins
Battery A • Captain William H. Reynolds
Battery B • Captain Thomas F. Vaughan
Battery C • Captain . . . — — Map (db m122517) HM
Rhode Island and Providence Plantations Preservation Preservation & Heritage Commission
[The left half of this section has been removed and makes the section illegible]
Rhode Island Historical Society
A short distance from here . . . — — Map (db m151714) HM
Roger Williams said there was no amount of money that could have purchased Providence.
In 1636, Williams and the Narragansett tribal leaders, or Sachems, Cononicus and Miantonomo, negotiated for the land that became Providence. Together, they . . . — — Map (db m115211) HM
In the decade before the Revolutionary War, the British were enforcing revenue laws by stationing maritime law enforcement vessels in Newport Harbor and Narragansett Bay. In 1769, Newport citizens burned the British sloop in protest of violations . . . — — Map (db m151735) HM
No lapse of time • No distance of space • Shall cause you to be forgotten
Everett
Yours has the suffering been • The memory shall be ours
Longfellow
We are grateful to the ninety six thousand
Rhode . . . — — Map (db m151721) WM
A turning point in the American Revolution came in February 1780, when the King of France approved a plan to send an army to help the Americans. A French fleet carrying thousands of soldiers arrived five months later in Newport, where they spent . . . — — Map (db m189624) HM
Welcome to the birthplace of religious freedom in the United States. Roger Williams, fleeing religious persecution in England and Massachusetts Bay Colony, founded Providence here in 1636. The original inhabitants, the Narragansett and Wampanoag, . . . — — Map (db m115217) HM
Built by publisher John Carter in 1772 to house the printing press of the Providence Gazette, the post office and a bookshop as well as Carter's growing family, this is one of the oldest three-story structures in Providence. So named for the . . . — — Map (db m56034) HM
Matilda Sissieretta Joyner Jones, the internationally celebrated soprano known as "Black Patti" lived near this site at 7 Wheaton Street until her passing on June 24, 1933.
With 17 medals and a diamond tiara bestowed upon her, she was the highest . . . — — Map (db m56160) HM
Battery A R.I.N.G.
Mexican Border
June 28 - October 10 1916
———————————
1917 • YD • 1919
World War I
103rd Field Artillery
26th, Yankee Division, A.E.F.
In . . . — — Map (db m122515) WM
Ten times Governor of Rhode Island
Chief Justice of the Superior Court
Chancellor of Brown University
Member of the Colonial Congress
Signer of the Declaration of Independence
Lived in this house 1743-1785
Washington was here a guest . . . — — Map (db m56030) HM
For gallant conduct at Petersburg, VA
April 2, 1865
SGT Archibald Malbourne • SGT John H. Havron
CPL James A. Barber • CPL Samuel E. Lewis
PVT John Corcoran • PVT Charles D. Ennis
PVT George W. Potter
Dedicated by the
Providence Marine . . . — — Map (db m122516) WM
The Brown bear was originally cast in plaster by Eli Harvey. A fund raiser campaign to "put a hair on the bear" was led by Senator Theodore Francis Green Class of 1887, and resulted in the commission of a bronze sculpture in 1923, the bronze bear . . . — — Map (db m56087) HM
In the 1700's, the open shoreline on the west side of the street gradually filled with shops and houses. Stores backed onto the cove and often had docks extending into the water for easy loading of wares in the flourishing colonial trade. Between . . . — — Map (db m76655) HM
Market Square and the Weybossett Bridge became the head of navigation in the Old Harbor with the construction of a fixed type bridge in 1816. Ships docked along the northern portion of South Water Street (now Memorial Park) and were serviced from . . . — — Map (db m151741) HM
Founded by
Roger Williams
A.D. 1638
The oldest
Baptist Church
in America
The oldest church in this state
This meeting house erected
A.D. 1773 — — Map (db m56032) HM
The First Baptist Meeting House is locate one block east of this bridge at 75 North Main Street. Founded in 1638 by Roger Williams, the First Baptist Church is the oldest Baptist congregation in America and has held continuous services since . . . — — Map (db m151712) HM
Saint Johns Lodge Number One
F. & A. M. of Providence
Added and used third story of
this building
Dedicated by Grand Master Jabez Brown
December 27, 1797
Meeting Place of
The most Worshipful Grand Lodge
F. & A. M. of Rhode Island . . . — — Map (db m193110) HM
adapted from The Civic and Architectural Development of Providence by John Hutchins Cady
Just to the north of where you are now standing the first bridge across the Providence River was erected in 1660, connecting the shore of the Neck with . . . — — Map (db m56466) HM
Top Marker The Hurricane of September 21st 1938 driven by a wind velocity of 95 MPH max caused tidal waters to reach a new level as indicated below
13 feet 8½ inches
above mean high water
one foot eleven and one fourth inches higher . . . — — Map (db m56293) HM
[Upper Marker:]
This building was erected in 1769 as a public school house by the town and its properties. Occupied by Brown University in 1770. One of the four first free public school buildings in 1800. Occupied by a school for colored . . . — — Map (db m56049) HM
Forced worship stinks in God's nostrils.
Roger Williams, in a letter to Connecticut
Governor Thomas Prence (1670)
The steeple in front of you is the First Baptist Church in America, gathered by Roger Williams in 1638. Williams was . . . — — Map (db m122503) HM
Has Been designated a Registered National Historic Landmark
Under the provisions of the Historic sites act of August 21 1935
This site possess exceptional value in commemorating and illustrating the history of the united states of America . . . — — Map (db m45072) HM
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