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Dulles’ fascination with the Narragansett beach stimulated so much tourist traffic that “Uncle Ezbon” S. Taylor opened the first real hotel – The Narragansett House – in 1856, catering largely to Dulles’ family and friends from Philadelphia and New York.
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Archaeological evidence places Narragansett peoples in the region that later became the colony and state of Rhode Islandmore than 30,000 years ago. They inhabited the area along Narragansett Bay from present-day Warwick to South Kingstown and were the largest of a number of native tribes living in the area. In 1524, the Italian explorer Giovanni da...
The first European settlers arrived in the region around 1635, and the following year the Narragansett sachems Canonicus and his nephew Miantonomi granted Roger Williamsland use rights to establish the settlement that would become the city of Providence. Williams had been banished by the civil authorities of Massachusetts Bay Colony due to his non-...
Good relations between the Narragansett and the European colonists lasted barely another decade before King Philip’s War—the first major war between colonists and Native Americans—broke out in 1675. Philip was the English name given to Metacom, the chief of the Wampanoag tribe and the son of Massasoit, the Native American leader who famously helped...
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Jul 10, 2022 · After spending a long winter in the woods of Massachusetts, he finally found friends within the Narragansett tribe. He purchased land from them and established Providence in spring, 1636. Williams was soon joined by another “heretic” who had been banished from the Bay colony: Mrs. Anne Hutchinson.
The colonists quickly came into contact with both the Narragansett and Niantic Sachems. Historically, tribal members had two homes; a winter home and a summer home. The winter home would be called a long house in which up to 20 families would live in over the cold winter months.
Mar 27, 2018 · The Narragansett sachems quickly perceived the threat lurking in English colonization. They promptly showed their resentment when their hereditary enemy found an unforeseen ally in Plymouth. They became deeply alarmed when the Puritans began to pour in during the 1630's.
Aug 7, 2008 · Clingstone, a faded, shingled, 103-year-old mansion set on a rock in Rhode Island’s Narragansett Bay, is one family’s labor of love.
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Feb 24, 2022 · During the summer of 1675, however, Wampanoag refugees drifted south into Narragansett territory, and Canonchet gave them shelter. In response to what they felt was a violation of Narragansett neutrality, the commissioners of the United Colonies met in Boston in late September 1675.
