Add to ORKGWith the Atlantic bordering on the south and the 28-mile long Naragansett Bay splitting the state along a north-south axis, Rhode Island is nicknamed the Ocean State. Its early settlement in 1636 and important sea trade there-after made Newport and Providence the seventh and eighth largest cities in the country as of the 1970 Census. The cities are no longer so nationally preeminent, but the state remains heavily populated and ranks behind New Jersey as the second most densely settled state in the nation
Unique among the states because of being the smallest of the fifty, Rhode Island thus often serves a...
Fort Adams State Park, Ocean Drive, and the town of Newport are pictured in the 1985 aerial photogra...
Aerial view of Providence downtown area. Among America’s oldest cities, Providence has a special se...
With the Atlantic bordering on the south and the 28-mile long Naragansett Bay splitting the state al...
Ranking cities and states for their livability, jobs, taxes, schools and a host of other measures is...
If you are number two, you try harder. But what do you do if you are number four? Figures recently r...
Among its several distinctive characteristics is Rhode Island\u27s small size. The smallest state gi...
Looking west over Providence Harbor, this shot shows a portion of the ten miles of commercial waterf...
The Rhode Island coast is distinguished by estuaries and brackish ponds, sand dunes and barrier beac...
Twenty years ago, the view of the city of Providence from the Washington Bridge was a dismal one. As...
During the American Revolution, war came early to Rhode Island. At the time hostilities commenced, t...
It is situated at the northern limit of New Hampshire\u27s short 18-mile seacoast, a seacoast perhap...
Unique among the states because of being the smallest of the fifty, Rhode Island thus often serves a...
Fort Adams State Park, Ocean Drive, and the town of Newport are pictured in the 1985 aerial photogra...
Aerial view of Providence downtown area. Among America’s oldest cities, Providence has a special se...
With the Atlantic bordering on the south and the 28-mile long Naragansett Bay splitting the state al...
Ranking cities and states for their livability, jobs, taxes, schools and a host of other measures is...
If you are number two, you try harder. But what do you do if you are number four? Figures recently r...
Among its several distinctive characteristics is Rhode Island\u27s small size. The smallest state gi...
Looking west over Providence Harbor, this shot shows a portion of the ten miles of commercial waterf...
The Rhode Island coast is distinguished by estuaries and brackish ponds, sand dunes and barrier beac...
Twenty years ago, the view of the city of Providence from the Washington Bridge was a dismal one. As...
During the American Revolution, war came early to Rhode Island. At the time hostilities commenced, t...
It is situated at the northern limit of New Hampshire\u27s short 18-mile seacoast, a seacoast perhap...
Unique among the states because of being the smallest of the fifty, Rhode Island thus often serves a...
Fort Adams State Park, Ocean Drive, and the town of Newport are pictured in the 1985 aerial photogra...
Aerial view of Providence downtown area. Among America’s oldest cities, Providence has a special se...