This Acre of Land

This Acre of Land is a Rhode Island historical marker in Washington County, dedicated 1936.

At Site of the now vanished village of Tower Hill, where Middle Bridge Road now crosses Tower Hill Road, Route 1B, South Kingstown · location approximate

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THIS ACRE OF LAND Was Given By Samuel Sewall and Hannah his Wife September 23, 1707 To Build a Public Meeting House For the Solemn Worship of God

1937 text, presented as a historical document.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.

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University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Historical maps covering this location

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)
1716 · Novi Belgii Novaeque Angliae nec non partis Virginiae tabula / multis in locis emendata a… (University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
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))

A map of New England, 1677, covering the location of This Acre of Land, with a pin at the marker's coordinates — A map of New England, 1677, 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)

This Acre of Land

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