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VARNUM MEMORIAL ARMORY Erected by Varnum Continentals 1914 on the…

VARNUM MEMORIAL ARMORY Erected by Varnum Continentals 1914 on the… is a Rhode Island historical marker in Kent County, dedicated 1936.

East Greenwich · location approximate

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VARNUM MEMORIAL ARMORY Erected by Varnum Continentals 1914 on the second site of Rhode Island Central Bank First Bank in East Greenwich 1840-1857 To the Memory of JAMES MITCHELL VARNUM Of East Greenwich Brigadier General Continental Army 1777-1779 Major General Rhode Island Militia 1779-1788 Member Continental Congress 1780-1782 1786-1787 U. S. Judge Supreme Court North West Territory 1788-1789 Born Dracutt, Mass., Dec. 17, 1748 Died Marietta, Ohio Jan. 10, 1789 This Tablet Dedicated April 19, 1936

1937 text, presented as a historical document.

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1746 · A Map of the British Empire in America. (Sheet 7). (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1797 · Rhode Island. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1800 · The state of Rhode Island (Digital Commonwealth, Boston Public Library)
1807 · Siege of Newport, Rhode Island. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1816 · Rhode Island (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

Siege of Newport, Rhode Island, 1807, covering the location of VARNUM MEMORIAL ARMORY Erected by Varnum Continentals 1914 on the…, with a pin at the marker's coordinates — Siege of Newport, Rhode Island, 1807, 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)

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