North Kingstown

North Kingstown has been mentioned more than a dozen times throughout the RSS channels we monitor. This location appears to be especially popular on the channel 'Online Review of Rhode Island History' where it has more than a dozen mentions. As seen in the chart below, North Kingstown had the highest popularity figure in September, 2016.

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“Citizen” James Varnum and His Fight for the Veterans of the Revolutionary War

[...] soon fell into poverty and had to petition the state for assistance. As Wilkins Updike of North Kingstown would write in his memoir of Varnum and his times, “The veteran soldiery who had exposed [...]

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Pearl Harbor Attack Panics Rhode Islanders

[...] air station at Quonset Point earlier in the year, thought about that sign he saw at the North Kingstown naval facility, asking for civilian volunteers to work at the navy base at Pearl Harbor. [...]

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Walter Massie, a Remarkable Wireless Radio Pioneer

[...] . Massie died in 1941. He, his wife and their two sons are buried in a simple plot in North Kingstown’s Elm Grove Cemetery. If it were not for the efforts of Bob Merriam and the NEWSM, [...]

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“I have never heard of him since” – The Case of Scituate’s James A. Matteson

[...] G, First Rhode Island Light Artillery. This soldier was born on September 13, 1844, in North Kingstown. He was the son of Verbadus and Mary Ann Greene Matteson. His half-brother, Nicholas Whitford [...]

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Top Ten Rhode Islanders from the Eighteenth Century

[...] Street in the Easton’s Point neighborhood of Newport. (6) Artist GILBERT STUART of North Kingstown and Newport, 1755-1828 Gilbert Stuart by Sarah Goodridge of Boston around 1825 ( [...]

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Early Accounts of Kent County by Travelers Near and from Afar

[...] this relation sett me in… Despite her worries, they reached Hawes Tavern in what is now North Kingstown safely. Illustration of the gravestone of Sarah Kemble Knight in New London, [...]

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Top 20 Greatest Rhode Islanders of All Time: Counting Down from Number 10 to 6

[...] Stuart by Sarah Goodridge of Boston around 1825 (Smithsonian American Art Museum) Born in North Kingstown to a Scottish immigrant who built the first snuff mill in the thirteen North American [...]

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Top 20 Greatest Rhode Islanders of All Time: Counting Down from Number 15 to 11

[...] periods of notable accomplishments. For example, I included Gilbert Stuart, who was born in North Kingstown and trained as a painter in Newport until he was fifteen years old (and returned to Newport [...]

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Top Twenty Greatest Rhode Islanders of All Time: Counting Down from Number Twenty to Sixteen

[...] periods of notable accomplishments. For example, I included Gilbert Stuart, who was born in North Kingstown and trained as a painter in Newport until he was fifteen years old (and returned to Newport [...]

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Pettaquamscutt Rock Commemorated, May 11, 1958

[...] , gave the English settlers title to most of what is now South Kingstown and parts of North Kingstown, Narragansett, and Exeter. Twenty years earlier, in March, 1638, Roger Williams at this spot [...]

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David Sherman Baker and the Stolen Election of 1893

[...] the gubernatorial candidate to the far right (Baker Family Photo Collection) David Baker was North Kingstown born and raised. His boyhood home was on the corner of Pleasant and Friend streets in [...]

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