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Woonsocket and Cumberland Tercentenary road marker

Woonsocket and Cumberland Tercentenary road marker is a Rhode Island historical marker in Providence County, dedicated 1936.

Woonsocket and Cumberland, Mendon Road · location approximate

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WOONSOCKET INCORPORATED 1867 BECAME A CITY 1888 NAME OF INDIAN ORIGIN CUMBERLAND INCORPORATED 1746 NAMED FOR WILLIAM DUKE OF CUMBERLAND FORMERLY CALLED ATTLEBORO GORE PART OF MASSACHUSETTS UNTIL 1746

1937 text, presented as a historical document.

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

Historical maps covering this location

1746 · A Map of the British Empire in America. (Sheet 7). (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1775 · The seat of war in New England, by an American volunteer (Digital Commonwealth, Boston Public Library)
1777 · Carte des environs de Boston, capitale de la Nlle. Angleterre en Amerique (Digital Commonwealth, Boston Public Library)
1797 · Rhode Island. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1800 · The state of Rhode Island (Digital Commonwealth, Boston Public Library)

Rhode Island, 1797, covering the location of Woonsocket and Cumberland 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)

Woonsocket and Cumberland Tercentenary road marker

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