East Greenwich and North Kingstown Tercentenary road marker
East Greenwich and North Kingstown Tercentenary road marker is a Rhode Island historical marker in Washington County, dedicated 1936.
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1937 text, presented as a historical document.
Maps this old were drawn largely by eye, so places on them can sit miles from where they really are. The pin is ours and marks the marker's location today.Maps this old were drawn largely by eye, so places on them can sit miles from where they really are. The pin is ours and marks the marker's location today.
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Digital Commonwealth, Boston Public LibraryDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamUniversity of Rhode Island Environmental Data Center (URI EDC) and RIGIS, from prints held by the Rhode Island Division of Statewide Planning (CC BY 4.0)
Historical maps covering this location
- 1660 · Noui Belgii Nouaeque Angliae nec non partis Virginiae tabula (Digital Commonwealth, Boston Public Library)
- 1674 · Totius Neobelgii nova et accuratissima tabula / [Hugo Allardt] (University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
- 1677 · A map of New England (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1797 · Rhode Island. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1939 · Rhode Island aerial photographs of May 1939 (University of Rhode Island Environmental Data Center (URI EDC) and RIGIS, from prints held by the Rhode Island Division of Statewide Planning (CC BY 4.0))
For example, one family's tree showed the Articles of Confederation marker in Pennsylvania standing under a mile from where William Gabby lived in the 1760s.
What that marker records spans 1777 to 1789, overlapping William Gabby's years there.
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Marker data: Rhode Island Tercentenary Commission, Rhode Island Tercentenary 1636-1936: A Report (1937)