Rhode Island Nightclubs
Warwick RI-
Boston Billiard Club
Boston
Billiard Club
33 Lambert Lind Highway (Rt 5)
Warwick RI
401-732-POOL
Boston
Billiard Club - Great Pool tables, a fully stocked bar,
great people, excellent food and the occasional live band.
Providence RI-
NV@ The Strand
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The Strand
79 Washington Street
Providence RI 02903
401-751-2700
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The Strand is widely considered “The Crown Jewel” of
Providence nightlife and “The Flagship” of New England clubs.
Possessing
30,000 square feet of historic theatre space, and catapulted into
the 21st century with more than $1 million and sound and lights,
five (5) VIP areas, a swank cocktail lounge, balcony seating
panoramically over looking the space, and an impeccably trained
staff.
Foxy Lady Gentleman's Club
Foxy
Lady Gentleman’s Club - The Best Nude Dancers in New England
Three Exciting Clubs to choose from!
Providence
318 Chalkstone Avenue
Providence RI 02908
800-536-3699
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Admission to Statehood: May 29, 1790
Area: 1545 sq.mi, 50th Land 1045 sq. mi., 50th Water 500 sq.mi., 41st Coastline 40 mi.,19th Shoreline 384 mi., 20th
Area Code: 401
Bird: Rhode Island Red
Border States: Regional List Connecticut Massachusetts New York (water border)
Constitution: 13th State
County Profile: 5 Counties:
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Rhode Island Facts and Trivia
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Rhode Island is the smallest state in size in
the United States. It covers an area of 1,214 square miles.
Its distances North to South are 48 miles and East to West 37
miles.
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Rhode Island was the last of the original
thirteen colonies to become a state.
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Rhode Island shares a state water border with
New York.
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The Cogswell Tower in Central Falls was the
site of an Indian observation point in use during King
Phillips War in 1676. The tower was built in 1904 as part of
the last will and testament of Caroline Cogswell.
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Rhode Island never ratified the 18th Amendment
prohibition.
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Judge Darius Baker imposed the first jail
sentence for speeding in an automobile on August 28, 1904 in
Newport.
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Polo was played for the first time in the
United States in 1876 near Newport.
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Rhode Island was home to the first National
Lawn Tennis Championship in 1899.
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St. Mary's, Rhode Island's oldest Roman
Catholic parish was founded in 1828. The church is best known
as the site of the wedding of Jacqueline Bouvier to John
Fitzgerald Kennedy in 1953.
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The state was home to the first open golf
tournament. The event occurred in 1895.
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Rhode Island has no county government. It is
divided into 39 municipalities each having its own form of
local government.
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The Flying Horse Carousel is the nation’s
oldest carousel. It is located in the resort town of Watch
Hill.
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The first circus in the United States was in
Newport in 1774.
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Ann and Hope was the first discount department
store in the United States the property was opened in Rhode
Island.
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Rhode Island is home to the Tennis Hall of
Fame.
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Rhode Island's official state name is Rhode
Island and Providence Plantations.
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George M. Cohan was born in Providence in
1878. He wrote, "I'm a Yankee Doodle Dandy,"
"You're a Grand Old Flag," and a wide variety of
other musical entertainment.
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Rhode Island is known for making silverware
and fine jewelry.
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The world's largest bug is on the roof of New
England Pest Control in Providence. It's a big blue termite,
58 feet long and 928 times actual termite size.
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At the Point Judith corrosion test site
material samples sit exposed for years and are analyzed to
determine the toll taken by ocean air and the sun.
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Rhode Islanders were the first to take
military action against England by sinking one of her ships in
the Narragansett Bay located between Newport and Providence.
The English ship was called "The Gaspee".
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Roger Williams, founder of Rhode Island,
established the first practical working model of Democracy
after he was banished from Plymouth, Massachusetts because of
his "extreme views" concerning freedom of speech and
religion.
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Thomas Jefferson and John Adams publicly
acknowledged Roger Williams, as the originator of the concepts
and principles reflected in The First Amendment. Among those
principles were freedom of religion, freedom of speech, and
freedom of public assembly.
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The era know as The Industrial Revolution
started in Rhode Island with the development and construction
in 1790 of Samuel Slater's water-powered cotton mill in
Pawtucket.
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The first British troops sent from England to
squash the revolution landed in Newport.
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Though second in command to George Washington,
Nathaniel Greene, a Rhode Islander, is acknowledged by many
historians as having been the most capable and significant
General of the Revolutionary effort. Cornwallis feared Greene
and his forces most. Greene ultimately defeated Cornwallis.
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Standing 11 feet tall and 278 feet above
ground the Independent Man is a gold-covered, bronze statue
placed atop the State House on December 18, 1899.
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A reproduction of the original Liberty Bell is
in the entrance hall on the south entrance to the State House.
It was donated to the people of the state by the United States
Treasury Department in 1950, when Harry S. Truman was
president. It is about 3-1/2 feet tall and the diameter of the
bell at its widest part is approximately 3-1/2 feet. It is
such a realistic copy that is even has a crack similar to the
original Liberty Bell.
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At Little Compton is home to the gravesite of
the first girl born to colonists in New England. The baby was
the daughter of pilgrims John and Priscilla Alden.
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Warwick enjoys a reputation of being Rhode
Island’s Retail Capital.
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Built in 1880 Channing Memorial Church was
named for William Ellery Channing, a leader in the Unitarian
Church and the abolitionist movement. Julia Ward Howe, author
of the "Battle Hymn of the Republic", attended this
church.
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The White Horse Tavern was built in 1673 and
is the oldest operating tavern in the United States.
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Rhode Island Red Monument in Adamsville pays
homage to the world-famous poultry breed.
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Rhode Island founder Roger Williams
established the First Baptist Church in America in 1638. The
existing structure was built in 1775
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Settled in 1642 Pawtuxet Village in Warwick
lays claim to being New England’s oldest village.
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The Redwood Library and Athenaeum in Newport
is the United States' oldest library building.
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The Crescent Park Carousel in East Providence
is the official state symbol of folk art.
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New England's oldest Masonic Temple in Warren
was built in the 18th century with timbers from British
frigates sunk in Newport Harbor during the Revolutionary War.
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Nine Men's Misery monument in Cumberland is
the oldest known monument to veterans in the United States. It
was erected in memory of the colonists killed in Pierce's
Fight during King Phillips War in 1676.
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Portsmouth is home to the oldest schoolhouse
in the United States. The school was built in 1716.
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Since 1785 Bristol has the longest running,
unbroken series of 4th of July Independence Day observances in
the country.
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The Touro Synagogue is the oldest synagogue in
North America. Built in 1763 the synagogue houses the oldest
torah in North America.
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Swamp Meadow Covered Bridge in Foster is the
only remaining covered bridge in Rhode Island.
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The first Afro-American regiment to fight for
America made a gallant stand against the British in the Battle
of Rhode Island.
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The first torpedo boat "Stiletto"
was built in Bristol in 1887.
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Pelham Street in Newport was the first street
in the country to use gas-illuminated streetlights.
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Cumberlandite is the official state rock. It
is dark brown or black with white markings and found on both
sides of Narragansett Bay but not north of Cumberland.
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The Quonset hut was invented at Quonset Point
a key naval reserve base.
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Jerimoth Hill is the state's highest point at
812 feet above sea level.
Websites
for Rhode Island:
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www.RhodeIslandHomeImprovement.com
www.RiFish.com
www.RhodeIslandSurf.com
www.RiOnline.org
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History
of Rhode Island:
Primitive
people of Asiatic origin, mistakenly named "Indians" by
Columbus, were the first inhabitants of present-day Rhode Island.
Archaeological evidence indicates their presence in this area more
than eight thousand years ago.
European
contacts with Rhode Island and its coastline have been claimed for
several explorers, including medieval Irish adventurers sailing in
skin-boats called currachs, Norsemen or Vikings (who were once
thought to be builders of the Newport Tower), and the daring
Portuguese navigator Miguel Corte-Real, who allegedly carved his
name and a series of symbols into Dighton Rock in the nearby
Taunton River. None of these visitations has been substantiated
beyond reasonable doubt, though each has its scholarly supporters.
Therefore, the 1524 voyage of Italian navigator Giovanni
Verrazzano stands as the first verifiable visit to Rhode Island by
a European adventurer.
Verrazzano
made his famous trip, searching for an all-water route through
North America to China, in the employ of the French king Francis
and several Italian promoters. After landfall at Cape Fear, North
Carolina, about March 1, 1524, he proceeded up the coast to the
present site of New York City to anchor in the Narrows, now
spanned by the giant bridge which bears his name. From there,
according to his own account, he sailed in an easterly direction
until he "discovered an island in the form of a triangle,
distant from the mainland ten leagues, about the bigness of the
Island of Rhodes," which he named Luisa after the Queen
Mother of France. This was Block Island, but Roger Williams and
other early settlers mistakenly thought that Verrazzano had been
referring to Aquidneck Island. Thus they changed that Indian name
to Rhode Island, and Verrazzano inadvertently and indirectly gave
the state its name.
Natives
who paddled out to his ship off Point Judith were so friendly that
Verrazzano sailed with their guidance into Narragansett Bay to a
second anchorage in what is now Newport harbor. He remained for
two weeks while his crew surveyed the bay and the surrounding
mainland, noting the fertile soil, the woods of oak and walnut,
and such game as lynx and deer. Their observations on the dress
and customs of their hosts, the Wampanoags, were also most
revealing. In early May 1524 Verrazzano departed to press on in
vain search for a Northwest Passage to the Orient.
For
ninety years following Verrazzano's visit, most European voyagers
to North America unsuccessfully sought that elusive Northwest
Passage or productively fished the Grand Banks off Newfoundland.
In either case, their travels kept them far to the north of the
Rhode Island coast. Not until 1614 were other significant
visitations to Rhode Island made and recorded. In that year John
Smith of Virginia fame explored and charted the New England coast
and bestowed upon this region its name, while Dutch mariner
Adriaen Block, en route to the Hudson River, visited Block Island
and immodestly named it for himself.
From
1620 onward, settlers from nearby Plymouth Colony and the colony
of Massachusetts Bay (established 1628) ventured into the
Narragansett region to trade with indian tribes. Finally, in 1635,
Rhode Island got its first white settler -- William Blackstone, an
eccentric Anglican clergyman who built a home near Lonsdale on the
banks of the river which came to bear his name.
Blackstone
and others who followed him found the area inhabited by several
Indian tribes. The largest of these was the Narragansetts. These
natives were part of the Algonquin family of Indian nations, a
loose network of related peoples whose habitat stretched from what
is now southern Canada to present-day North Carolina. Before the
establishment of the permanent white settlements in New England,
the Narragansetts occupied the area of Rhode Island from Warwick
southward along Narragansett Bay to the present towns of South
Kingstown and Exeter. The rest of Rhode Island was populated by
other Algonquins, some friendly, some bitter enemies of the
Narragansetts.
The
Wampanoags were undoubtedly the Narragansetts' prin cipal rivals.
Their sphere of influence extended throughout much of the eastern
shore of Narragansett Bay and included Bristol Neck, portions of
southeastern Massachusetts, Pawtucket, and parts of Lincoln and
Cumberland. At the apex of their power well as territory within
the present bounds of Providence and Warwick.
The
Nipmucks, a weak tribe by comparison with the Narragansetts and
the Wampanoags, maintained a tenuous foothold in the northwesterly
corner of the state. Initially tributaries of the Wampanoags, the
Nipmucks by 1630 came under the yoke of the expanding
Narragansetts, a fate that also befell two subtribes in the
Warwick area, the Cowesetts and the Shawomets.
On
the southern coast the Niantics populated much of what is now the
towns of Charlestown and Westerly. II appears that they were
driven out of Connecticut by the warlike Pequots sometime late in
the sixteenth century. The Pequots -- who took their name from an
Algonquin word meaning destroyer -- continued their expansion
eastward, and in 1632 they engaged in a bitter war with the
Narragansetts for control of the area just east of the Pawcatuck
River in Westerly and Hopkinton.
Anthropologists
have estimated the Narragansett Population at about seven thousand
persons when the first white settlers arrived. This estimate also
includes the Niantics, who were related to the Narragansetts by
marriage and shared the same customs and language. These Indians
subsisted on farming, fishing, and hunting. Roles were strictly
defined in Algonquin society, and the women decidedly had the
worst of it. Besides childbearing, females were responsible for
planting, harvesting, toting of material possessions when the
village moved on a seasonal basis, preparation of food,
shellfishing, utensil manufacture, and the erection of wigwams
(the bark huts of the Indians). Men, on the other hand, performed
the far less strenuous duties of fishing and hunting, and they
spent a good deal of time in recreational activities.
The
Narragansetts and Niantics lived in compact villages that were
composed of families who shared a kin relationship. Village
leaders, sometimes called subsachems or petty sachems, answered to
a higher authority. For the Narragansetts, the ultimate
governmental leadership rested in the hands of two men, called
chief sachems, who claimed an exalted status by virtue of royal
blood. When Roger Williams founded the town of Providence,
canonicus and his young nephew Miantonomi reigned as the two chief
sachems of the Narragansetts.
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