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Rhode Island’s official name includes “Providence Plantations” after the name of a settlement founded in 1636 by Roger Williams that now includes the state’s capital city, according to the ...
Our state’s full name is “The State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.” Supporters of the proposed change want to drop “Providence Plantations,” claiming slavery and the ...
The name dates to the 17th century, when the Puritan minister Roger Williams founded plantations on the Providence River that later became the colony — and then the state — of Rhode Island.
This state's official name - The State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations - is more than just a mouthful. To many, it evokes stinging reminders of Rhode Island's prime role in the trans ...
One was Providence Plantations, the settlement Roger Williams established in modern Providence along with a couple other small towns in what is now Northern Rhode Island.
Rhode Island Gov. Gina Raimondo signed an executive order Monday removing the phrase "Providence Plantations" from her administration’s communications. As many social media users and media ...
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Rhode Island will remove the phrase "Providence Plantations" in the state's formal name from some official documents and executive agency websites, Gov. Gina Raimondo ...
The official state name still includes "Providence Plantations," in reference to the mainland colony founded by Roger Williams in 1636.