South Kingstown

South 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 'ActiveRain Blogs' where it has less than a dozen mentions. As seen in the chart below, South Kingstown had the highest popularity figure in January, 2017.

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“I’m a Good Old Rebel:” Ocean State Confederates

[...] battle flag on the cover. In today’s politically fueled climate, the debate continues in South Kingstown about changing the name of the team to something else. During the eighteenth century Rhode [...]

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Top 20 Greatest Rhode Islanders of All Time: Counting Down from Number 5 to 1

[...] suffered devastating losses, including the defeat of the Narragansetts at the Great Swamp in South Kingstown in December 1675. The war ended with the hunting down and killing of Metacomet in August of [...]

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The Hurricane of 1938: An Oral History Told by Nancy Allen Holst, Forest Fire Warden and Pilot Part I: The Devastating D...

[...] was released in the Spring of 1977, and is available in some state libraries, including in South Kingstown. It was sponsored by the Rhode Island Committee for the Humanities and South Kingstown High [...]

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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 yearly payment of road taxes.[10] During the Ward-Hopkins controversy of the 1760s, South Kingstown was assessed the second highest property valuation in the colony. This was partly because the [...]

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Jemima Wilkinson: the First American-Born Woman to Found a Religious Movement

[...] trips to Providence, Newport, Tiverton, Little Compton, East Greenwich, and North and South Kingstown, as well as to Swansea and Dighton, Massachusetts. In 1778, Wilkinson’s persuasive powers led [...]

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Imitation "Jets"?

Imitation "Jets"?

[...] , describing third appearance of imitation "jet" flying in daytime low over his South Kingstown, Rhode Island, house on Monday, January 27, 2011 [...]

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Top 10 Early Rhode Island History Books

[...] Value, Preaching Friends and Neighborhood Gossip. Recorded by a blacksmith and Quaker from South Kingstown, this missive is a vital record of life in South County from the American Revolution through [...]

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Top Ten Turning Points in Rhode Island’s History

[...] deep in the Great Swamp, several miles from what is today West Kingston, in the town of South Kingstown.  On December 16, 1675, striking at the unfinished part of the fort, after a short but fierce [...]

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Father of “12 Years a Slave” Protagonist Hailed from North Kingstown

[...] (Kingston, RI:  Pettaquamscutt Historical Society, 2006); McBurney, Christian, “The South Kingstown Planters: Country Gentry in Colonial Rhode Island,” Rhode Island History, vol. 45. no. [...]

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“Strange Mismanagement”: The Capture of the HMS Syren

[...] .[xxiii] In addition, at least three local African American slaves were ordered by their South Kingstown masters to help for several days to unload the Syren and the Two Mates.[xxiv] Furthermore, [...]

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