Block Island

2017-02-25

[...] per year. Another stream of vessels outside the Point Judith venue transited east and west of Block Island bound for more distant venues, adding thousands more to the count. This was also the peak [...]

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smallstatebighistory.com

2017-02-18

[...] a clock in the evening he bore from us N.W. by W. two leagues, when we lost sight of him near Block Island. One desperado was for blowing up this sloop rather than surrendering, and being hindered, he [...]

Online Review of Rhode Island History

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smallstatebighistory.com

2016-12-09

[...] and furloughs,” the newspaper added, noting that many had to cut short their holiday leaves. Block Island, a small island thirteen miles south of the coast of the Rhode Island mainland, as was the [...]

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smallstatebighistory.com

2016-09-17

[...] . A storm blew down the Block Island’s slender antenna tower and deForrest lost interest in the deal. The Journal needed someone [...]

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smallstatebighistory.com

2016-04-29

[...] Virginia in October of 1781. Married to the vivacious and intelligent Catharine Littlefield of Block Island, Greene tragically died of heatstroke at the age of forty-four, while working on the [...]

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smallstatebighistory.com

2016-02-12

[...] Many Rhode Islanders are familiar with the sinking of the German submarine U-853 off Block Island in May of 1945 in the waning days of World War II. But U-boats had been prowling Rhode Island [...]

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smallstatebighistory.com

2016-01-22

[...] and “Port de Refuge” probably intends to show the West Passage.  “Brisa” is probably Block Island. (Private Collection)] For Further Reading: Charles Mann. 1491. New Revelations of the [...]

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