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April 10
Heritage Hike: Harkness Conservation Area, Forestdale, North Smithfield
April 10-11
Newport History Walking Tours, Newport
April 11
East Providence Historical Society Open House, Rumford, East Providence
April 17-18
Newport History Walking Tours, Newport
April 24
Great Coats and Greatcoats, Seasonal Wardrobes in the Eighteenth Century, Newport
Stone Walls Walk and Talk, Bristol
Run for the Lighthouse, Riverside, East Providence
April 24-25
Newport History Walking Tours, Newport
May 1-9
Celebrate Spring with Tulips!, Exeter
May 1
Derby Day Party, Bristol
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April 10th in Rhode Island history*
1794
Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry [who will open Japanese ports to world trade in 1854], is born in Newport.
1905
National Landholders Bank of Kingston (Charter #1158) is reorganized as the Kingston Trust Company.
1928
Narragansett's Wayside Inn opens.
1942
An Emergency Defense Act is signed giving wartime powers to the Governor and the Council of Defense.
2016
Cranston's Edgewood Yacht Club "breaks ground" on a new clubhouse. The old clubhouse burned down when it was struck by lightning during a blizzard in January 2011.