Rep. McNamara maintains the 1663 Royal Charter empowers the governor to create free trade zones, but R.I. Commerce officials ...

Providence Plantations and Rhode Island. Providence Plantations was the name of the colony founded by Roger Williams in the area now known as the City of Providence. Rhode Island was the area now ...

Williams then purchased land from the Narragansett tribe and founded the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, where he welcomed people of different faiths. England's King Charles II also ...