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Tweet This past Friday I decided to go to Block Island in order to be able to update the Block Island/New Shoreham page on RI-Photo.com, and also of course in order to composed a post here for anyone unfamiliar with Block Island. This was my first time back to Block Island in probably 10 years [...]
Tweet Click Here to Purchase Photo The Dutch Island Lighthouse is located on Dutch Island, which is also known as Quetenis, its Indian name. This Island lies in Narragansett Bay between the village of Saunderstown, which is part of North Kingstown, and the West side of Jamestown. Today the small 81 acre island is only [...]
Tweet Click Here to Purchase Photo Today’s Picture of the Day is of a few fishermen fishing on some rocks near a little beach area in Jamestown. This is the same Jamestown that the Jamestown Bridge connects to the mainland or Providence Plantations part of the state (I showed you the remnants of the old [...]
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Fort Wetherill is a historic fort located on Conanicut Island, which contains the entire the city of Jamestown and sits in the middle of Narraganset Bay. The location had fortifications going back as far as the colonial period. The site was called the battery at Dumpling Rock, and served together with the then newly constructed Fort Adams in Newport to protect the East Passage of Narragansett Bay.
Tweet Yesterday workers at the Rhode Island state house were busy setting up for the upcoming Christmas holiday. They placed one large Christmas tree in the very center of the state house, which they were getting ready to put the lights on; and numerous other Christmas trees are on display, from around the world. Also [...]
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