America's Industrial Revolution began in this region north of Providence in 1790, when the power of the Blackstone River, which... (more)
Block Island, 12 mi off Rhode Island's southern coast, is 7 mi long and 3 mi wide. With its 17 mi of beaches, Block Island has... (more)
Perched gloriously on the southern tip of Aquidneck Island and bounded on three sides by water, Newport is one of the great sailing... (more)
New England's second-largest city (with a population of 175,000, behind Boston) comes into the 21st century as a renaissance city... (more)
When the principal interstate traffic through Rhode Island shifted from U.S. 1 to Interstate 95 in the 1960s, the coastal part... (more)