Scituate 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 less than a dozen mentions. As seen in the chart below, Scituate had the highest popularity figure in September, 2016.

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Pearl Harbor Attack Panics Rhode Islanders

[...] retorted, “You can’t dig clams in Westminster Street and you can’t get lobsters in Scituate.” The state’s press admired the islander’s spunk, and the Rhode Island House of [...]

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

[...] and Vermonters. Among the Rhode Islanders who would never be seen again was James A. Matteson of Scituate. The service and pension files contained within the National Archives contain some of the best [...]

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Top Ten Rhode Islanders from the Eighteenth Century

[...] of Rhode Island. He started his political career at age twenty-three as Justice of the Peace for Scituate. He was an early advocate for the worth of paper money to shape the economy of the future. He [...]

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Early Accounts of Kent County by Travelers Near and from Afar

[...] , recording a journey through the state along the Old Plainfield Pike in 1773, reported a stop in Scituate as follows: This part of the colony is thinly inhabited, and the buildings are ordinary. A [...]

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Rhode Island’s Last Civil War Veteran: An Irishman

[...] Parade at Washington, D.C., Riley was discharged from the service on July 13, 1865. He moved to Scituate, Rhode Island, and worked as a millwright in local mills around Pawtucket Valley where his [...]

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

[...] of Kansas, 2013). 11. Stephen Hopkins (1707-1785) Stephen Hopkins Born in what is now Scituate, he was apparently self-taught, becoming a judge on the court of common pleas and then [...]

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Unfortunate Ends: Gleanings from the Death Notices of Early Rhode Island Newspapers

[...] a demented condition and delirious, and taken to the asylum where he revived, to say he was from Scituate, Mass., a mason by trade, had a brother Rowland, at Watertown; the fever returned and he died. [...]

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Supplying Water to Providence: Cranston’s “Slow Sand” Filtration Plant, Circa 1905

[...] creation of the Providence Water Supply Board with authority to construct a reservoir in rural Scituate. This mammoth infrastructure project called for the damming of the north branch of the Pawtuxet [...]

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“Money I have none:” Colonial Rhode Island’s Tradition of Negotiating Their Taxes and the Coming of the American Revolut...

[...] the other headquartered in Providence under the direction of Stephen Hopkins, originally from Scituate, Rhode Island. The main goal of these two factions was the control of political patronage and [...]

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