If you want to immerse yourself in history as well as nature, Rhode Island also has plenty of historical parks, with the state's first park, Roger Williams Park, opening almost 200 years ago.

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With no portraits of Rhode Island theologian Roger Williams to go by, sculptor based image on the Splendid Splinter ...

Rhode Island was founded by a guy – Roger Williams – who was banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony for espousing “new and dangerous opinions.” Any Rhode Islander today who tries to ...

Now is the time to embark on a Jurassic Journey as Dinosaurs are roaring back to life at Roger Williams Park Zoo! This immersive walk-through will take you back in time to a world of prehistoric ...

At that point, the Connecticut colony attempted ... one of the five men who joined Roger Williams in his first party to establish a settlement in present-day Rhode Island. The area was slow ...

The Providence church was founded in 1638 by Roger Williams, the English-born minister who founded Rhode Island after being booted from the Massachusetts Bay Colony for his views. And now ...

Recreates the conflict of Roger Williams with the ... banishment from the Massachusetts Bay Colony; and his decision to establish the new colony of Rhode Island. Starring Donald Moffat.