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Richmond and South Kingstown Tercentenary road marker

Richmond and South Kingstown Tercentenary road marker is a Rhode Island historical marker in Washington County, dedicated 1936.

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RICHMOND INCORPORATED 1747 PROBABLY NAMED FOR ATTORNEY GENERAL EDWARD RICHMOND SOUTH KINGSTOWN INCORPORATED 1722 WHEN KINGS TOWNE WAS DIVIDED NAMED FOR THE KING CHARLES II

1937 text, presented as a historical document.

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American Geographical Society Library, UW-Milwaukee

Historical maps covering this location

1677 · A map of New England (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1719 · A new map of the English empire in America viz Virginia, New York, Maryland, New Jersey… (American Geographical Society Library, UW-Milwaukee)
1797 · Rhode Island. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1824 · 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))

Rhode Island, 1797, covering the location of Richmond and South Kingstown Tercentenary road marker, with a pin at the marker's coordinates — Rhode Island, 1797, covering this location. David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries. The pin is ours and the location is approximate.

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Marker data: Rhode Island Tercentenary Commission, Rhode Island Tercentenary 1636-1936: A Report (1937)

Richmond and South Kingstown Tercentenary road marker

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