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Saturday, September 5, 2015
Fact of the Day: A Newport Capital
Since the early days of Rhode Island, the state's capital would rotate between several cities. It eventually dropped to just Providence and Newport. Then in 1900 Newport was no longer co-capital of Rhode Island.
All I can say in anticipation is that I hope Rhode Island as we all know is a small state of the USA and not a country as Hawaii was elevated to by someone (??). The Hawaiian Islands were a country of islands and ruled by a Hawaiian Monarchy until taken over by the USA. Good luck residents of the state of Rhode Island, someone may elevate you to a country on the Atlantic Coastline - God forbid if Rhode Island finds itself somewhere in the Gulf of Mexico or off the Pacific coastline of the USA! B J Hunnicut
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All I can say in anticipation is that I hope Rhode Island as we all know is a small state of the USA and not a country as Hawaii was elevated to by someone (??).
The Hawaiian Islands were a country of islands and ruled by a Hawaiian Monarchy
until taken over by the USA.
Good luck residents of the state of Rhode Island, someone may elevate you to a country on the Atlantic Coastline - God forbid if Rhode Island finds itself somewhere in the Gulf of Mexico or off the Pacific coastline of the USA!
B J Hunnicut
Go for it Rhode Island.
Go for it Rhode Island.
Fascinating bit of history.
Interesting.
Quite interesting
That would be interesting to still be done, although probably more costly now
It's impractical to have a capital in two different cities.
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