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February 26

*African-American Travel: Listings from The Negro Motorist's Green Book in Newport, Newport

February 27

*"Shall We Shanty?" A Night of Revelry and Song, Cranston

February 29

*Newport Seal Tours/Newport Seal and Lighthouse Tours, Newport

*Flicks and Fare on Washington Square, Newport

March 1

*Newport Seal Tours/Newport Seal and Lighthouse Tours, Newport

March 7

*Guided Walk on Neutaconkanut Hill, Providence

*Flicks and Fare on Washington Square, Newport

March 7-8

*Newport Seal Tours/Newport Seal and Lighthouse Tours, Newport

March 8

*Federal Hill Culinary and History Tour, Providence

*Hike Through Hunts Mills, East Providence

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February 26th in Rhode Island history*

1722

*Kings Towne is divided and incorporated into the towns of North and South Kingstown. The act provides that North Kingstown, having the earliest settlements, should retain the 1674 establishment date.

1802

*Commodore Esek Hopkins, the first Commander-in Chief of the American Navy (1775-'78), dies.

1887

*A small fire discovered at the rear of 599 High Street in Providence is alleged to have been set by John P. Fuller, a call member of Steamer No. 8 of the Fire Department. It's thought by his fellow firemen that the many serious fires of the past twelve days turned the man's mind.

1926

*Aquidneck National (Charter #1546) merges with National Exchange Bank of Newport (Charter #1565) to form the Aquidneck National Exchange and Savings Bank of Newport.

1971

*The Rhode Island Senate, by a vote of 26 to 24, passes the first personal income tax in the state's history.

1972

*BBishop Louis E. Gelineau is consecrated the sixth Bishop of Providence.

2001

*A six-alarm blaze destroys the vacant, former Nafta Textile Mills complex on Old River Road in Lincoln. Explosions during the blaze are heard two miles away. Some of the buildings dated to the 1880s.

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