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Ive seen some people arguing about this guy recently. Some saying he’s amazing, others not so much. And I’m at the point of sheer curiosity. What exactly did this guy do? Why is he held in such a high regard?

Hope Mill in Scituate was originally a cotton textile factory. The first wooden mill was built in 1806. After it burned in 1844, Brown & Ives replaced it with the large stone mill. Later occupants manufactured lace and elastic fabrics; textile production continued until 2007.

I have explored all 50 states taking pictures of abandoned and strange things! These are some the cool things I saw in the smallest state.

If you like my work see more of it on my instagram: https://www.instagram.com/whimsicalruins/

Working in a project about Biscuit City so wanted to share some of the photos the South County History Center is allowing me to use.

The abandoned hamlet & mill is less than a half mile from the URI campus. The Biscuit City mill hosted numerous different businesses. It was a gristmill, cotton factory, carriage manufacturer, and more.

Where’d the name Biscuit City come from? You’ll have to watch the YouTube episode to find out!

….kidding. According to local lore It’s because long ago a door to door peddler was trying to sell stuff to the houses in the area but all of the women said they were too busy baking biscuits. When the peddler ran into somebody in Kingston later that day he jokingly called the hamlet Biscuit City.

Interesting ephemera from 1977. It was definitely a different time.

This photo shows the long-gone Musicians School at Naval Training Station, Newport, Rhode Island in 1921.

I have correspondence and photographs of Lucian Sharpe Jr

Son of Lucian Sharpe who was the partner in Brown & Sharpe precision tools, from Rhode island.

He was my grandmother's partner until he died in 1931, they were both living in Paris at the time.

Thought maybe a relative might still be around.

Hello Rhode Island community,

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Im researching John Seller’s map of New England (published in 1676) for a history project and trying to understand why the Colony of Rhode Island essentially doesn’t appear on it. The map shows Connecticut Colony, Massachusetts Colony, and Plymouth Colony with clear borders, but Rhode Island’s colonial borders are completely absent. Providence appears but without any colonial designation, and Plymouth Colony visually absorbs much of what was Rhode Island’s chartered territory. The only reference to “Rhode Island” on the map is Aquidneck Island itself.

Here’s what makes this complicated:

Rhode Island had a royal charter since 1663, granted by Charles II, that clearly defined its borders and even placed the Narragansett territory within the colony. So this isn’t a case of Rhode Island not legally existing yet.

The map’s borders appear to reflect William Reed’s 1665 survey, which was commissioned by Massachusetts to support the Massachusetts Charter of 1628, predating Rhode Island’s charter. So one explanation is simply that Seller was working from pre-Rhode Island source material and didn’t update it.

But Seller also demonstrably added current information. The map includes the Battle of Hadley from September 1675, meaning this wasn’t just a passive reproduction of old data. He was making editorial choices.

So my question is: does anyone have any theories or know why Rhode Island’s colonial borders were omitted? Was it purely a function of his source material, a reflection of Rhode Island’s exclusion from the New England Confederation, something political, or something else entirely?