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Rhode Island's 1936 Tercentenary markers, on the maps of their own eras

For the 300th anniversary of Roger Williams's settlement at Providence, Rhode Island marked itself in 1936. Road markers went up at the town lines, each face carrying the arms of the town it faces and that town's own historical text, and the towns marked their historic sites by the hundred. Every marker recorded in the Commission's 1937 report now has a permanent page at TreeAlive, placing its 1937 text on georeferenced maps from the period it commemorates.

464marker pages live
82,000+historical map sheets
Tercentenarycredited on every page

Every dot is a live page. Click one to preview it or add it to a road trip. Prefer a list? Browse all 464 markers by county.

Featured markers

Cranston and Providence Tercentenary road marker
1636–1910
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Whitehall
1726–1731
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Edward Carr House
1686–1702
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What a Rhode Island family sees

TreeAlive maps family trees. When a visitor's ancestors lived in Rhode Island, the markers standing near those places surface automatically alongside their family's journey:

Whitehall · near where a family lived in Middletown in the 1700s · built in 1729 by George Berkeley, Dean of Derry, and his home from 1726 to 1731

A marker stops being a roadside plaque and becomes a destination with a personal reason to visit. Open the live demo tree, choose the Crossings tab, and turn on Historical Markers to see the experience working (the demo family’s markers are in Pennsylvania; a Rhode Island family sees Rhode Island’s).

QR-ready, from day one

Every marker page has print-ready QR artwork. A scan at the sign opens the marker's page on the period map, no app to install. The artwork files are available to the town and its sign vendors; TreeAlive does no printing or installation.

Marker page links are permanent: identifiers are never reassigned, so a code printed today resolves for good.

QR code opening the Cranston and Providence Tercentenary road marker marker page Scan: Cranston and Providence town line marker

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