It's taken nearly four years of study and deliberation, but Rhode Island now has a plan to physically remove the phrase "Providence Plantations" from most, although not all, places where it is ...

A seal of the State of Rhode Island that was embedded in a walkway ... version of the emblem that included the words "and Providence Plantations." It will eventually be replaced.

Licht Judicial Complex, built in a striking Georgian architectural style from 1928 to 1933 between Benefit and South Water streets in Providence ... Old Colony House was known as Rhode Island ...