Historical and Genealogical Links and Resources

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Genealogy

• African Slave Markers in Colonial Newport.
• American-French Genealogical Society.
• Association for Gravestone Studies.
• Boston to Providence Genealogical Society.
• Joseph Bucklin Society.
• Crandall Family Association.
• DistantCousin.com.
• Family Relationship Chart.
• Find A Grave.
• National Aldrich Family Association.
• New England Historical Genealogical Society.
• Newport County Genealogical Society, PO Box 4762, Middletown, RI 02842, contact: Karen MacKnight, newport_ri_genie@hotmail.com
• Plymouth Ancestors.
• The Political Graveyard.
• Rhode Island Cemeteries Database.
• Rhode Island Genealogical Society.
• Rhode Island Historical Cemeteries.
• Rhode Island Historical Cemeteries Transcription Project.
• Rhode Island Historical Cemetery Commission.
• Rhode Island USGenWeb Genealogy and History Project.
• Society of Stukely Westcott Descendants of America.
• The USGenWeb Free Census Project.
• Whipple Website.
• Roger Williams Family Association.

Historical, Heritage, and Preservation Societies

• Barrington Preservation Society.
• Blackstone Valley Historical Society.
• Block Island Historical Society.
• Bristol Historical and Preservation Society.
• Burrillville Historical and Preservation Society.
• Charlestown Historical Society.
• Coventry Historical Society.
• Cranston Historical Society.
• East Providence Historical Society.
• Exeter Historical Association.
• Foster Preservation Society.
• Friends of Sakonnet Lighthouse.
• Glocester Heritage Society.
• Historical Society of Smithfield.
• Hopkinton Historical Association, Town House Road, Hopkinton, RI 02833, (401) 337-2219.
• Italian American Historical Society of Rhode Island.
• Jamestown Historical Society.
• Johnston Historical Society.
• Little Compton Historical Society.
• Massasoit Historical Association.
• Middletown Historical Society.
• Newport Historical Society.
• Newport Restoration Foundation.
• North Smithfield Heritage Association, School Street, North Smithfield, RI 02896, (401) 766-0701.
• Pawtucket History Research Center.
• Pawtuxet Valley Preservation and Historical Society.
• Pettaquamscutt Historical Society.
• Portsmouth Historical Society
• Preservation Society of Pawtucket.
• Providence Preservation Society.
• Prudence Island Historical and Preservation Society.
• Rhode Island Aviation Hall of Fame.
• Rhode Island Black Heritage Society.
• Rhode Island Historical Preservation and Heritage Commission.
• Rhode Island Historical Society.
• Rhode Island Jewish Historical Association.
• Rhode Island Music Hall of Fame.
• Rhode Island Music Hall of Fame Historical Archive.
• Richmond Historical Society.
• Scituate Preservation Society.
• Smithfield Historical Society.
• Tiverton Historical Society.
• Warwick Historical Society.
• Westerly Historical Society.
• Western Rhode Island Civic Historical Society.
• Willow Dell Historical Association.
• Woonsocket Historical Society.

Internet Archives

• The American Colonist's Library.
• American Memory: Historical Collections for the National Digital Library.
• The Food Timeline.
• North Kingstown Free Library's Flickr photostream.
• Penny Postcards from Rhode Island.
• Providence Public Library's Image Collections.
• Providence Public Library's Rhode Island Images Flickr page.
• Rhode Island Historical Society Postal History Collection.
• Stereoviews.com.

Libraries

• Rhode Island Library Index by Library Name

Maps

• A Map of New England, woodcut by John Foster, Boston, 1677
• Old Maps of New York and New England
• Panoramic Maps from the Library of Congress
• Rhode Island USGenWeb Project Maps
• University of Rhode Island Environmental Data Laboratory

Museums and Historic Houses

• Aardvark Antiques, Newport.
• Aldrich House, (1822), Providence.
• American Diner Museum.
• Elijah Angell House, (c. 1825), Johnston.
• Eleazer Arnold House (c. 1687), Lincoln.
• John Waterman Arnold House (late 1700s), 25 Roger Williams Circle, Warwick, (401)467-7647.
• Artillery Company of Newport.
• Astors Beechwood Mansion (1851), Newport.
• Babcock-Smith House (c. 1734), Westerly.
• Isaac Bell House (1883), Newport.
• Blithewold Mansion, Gardens, and Arboretum (1906), Bristol.
• Belcourt Castle (1894), Newport.
• The Breakers (1895), Newport.
• Bristol Train of Artillery Armory and Museum, Bristol.
• John Brown House (1786), Providence.
• Cape Verdean Museum Exhibit, East Providence.
• Casey Farm (c. 1750), North Kingstown.
• Chase-Cory House (1730), Tiverton Four Corners, Tiverton.
• Chateau Sur Mer (1852), Newport.
• Clemence-Irons House (c. 1680), Johnston.
• Clement Weaver House (c. 1679, private residence), East Greenwich.
• Clouds Hill Victorian House Museum (c. 1870), Warwick.
• Coggeshall Farm Museum, Bristol.
• Culinary Arts Museum , Providence.
• Daggett House (1685), Pawtucket.
• Jeremiah Dexter House (c. 1754), Providence.
• The Doll Museum, Newport.
• The Dorr Rebellion Museum, Chepachet, Glocester.
• The Elms, (1901), Newport.
• Fayerweather House (1859), South Kingston.
• Fireman's Museum, Warren.
• Lysander and Susan Flagg Museum and Cultural Center, Central Falls.
• General Nathanael Greene Homestead (1770), Coventry.
• Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology, Providence.
• Edward Everett Hale House (1873), Matunuck, South Kingstown.
• Hannaway Blacksmith Shop (late nineteenth century), Lincoln.
• Hearthside (1810), Lincoln.
• Heritage Harbor Museum, Providence.
• Herreshoff Marine Museum, America's Cup Hall of Fame, Brisol.
• Governor Stephen Hopkins House (1707) Providence.
• International Tennis Hall of Fame, Newport.
• Jamestown Museum, Jamestown.
• Jamestown Windmill (1787), Jamestown.
• Joy Homestead (c. 1754), Cranston.
• Kingscote, (1841), Newport.
• Linden Place (c. 1810), Bristol.
• Governor Henry Lippitt House (1865), Providence.
• Malbone Castle, (c. 1848), Newport.
• Marble House, (1892), Newport.
• Maxwell House (1752), Warren.
• Mount Hope Farm, Bristol.
• Museum of Broadcast Technology, Woonsocket.
• Museum of Natural History and Planetarium, Providence.
• Museum of Newport History, Newport.
• Museum of Primitive Art and Culture, South Kingstown.
• Museum of Work and Culture, Woonsocket.
• Museum of Yachting, Newport.
• National Museum of American Illustration, Newport.
• Naval War College Museum, Newport.
• New England Wireless and Steam Museum, East Greenwich.
• Newport Postcard Museum.
• Newport Tower Museum.
• Old Town Hall Museum, Westerly (under construction).
• Old Washington County Jail, Kingston, South Kingstown.
• Paine House Museum, Coventry.
• Prescott Farm, Middletown.
• Quonset Air Museum, North Kingstown.
• Redwood Library and Athenaeum, Newport.
• Rhode Island Black Heritage Society, Providence.
• Rhode Island Computer Museum, North Kingstown.
• Rhode Island Fishermen and Whale Museum, 18 Market Square, Newport, (401) 849-1340.
• Rhode Island Museum of Science and Art.
• Rosecliff (1902), Newport.
• Rough Point (1889), Newport.
• Slater Mill Historic Site, Pawtucket.
• Smith-Applebee House (1696), Smithfield.
• Smith's Castle (1679), Wickford, North Kingstown.
• South County Museum, Narragansett.
• Sprague Mansion (c. 1790 + 1864), Cranston.
• Steamship Historical Society of America, East Providence.
• Gilbert Stuart Birthplace (1751), Saunderstown, North Kingstown.
• Tall Ship Providence, Providence.
• Tomaquag Indian Memorial Museum, Exeter.
• U.S.S. Saratoga Museum Foundation, North Kingstown.
• U.S.S. John F. Kennedy Aircraft Carrier Project.
• General James Mitchell Varnum House Museum (1773), East Greenwich.
• Wanton-Lyman-Hazard House (1675), Newport.
• Warren Fire Department Museum, 38 Baker Street, Warren.
• Watson Farm, Jamestown.
• Watson House (1790), South Kingstown.
• Whitehall House Museum (c. 1729), Middletown.
• Samuel Whitehorne House Museum, Newport.
• Wilbor House (c. 1690), Little Compton.

Newspapers, Periodicals, and Blogs

• Advocate Monthly
• All Pawtucket All the Time
• The Bay
• Block Island Times
• Blog on the Halfshell by Doug Norris.
• Brown Alumni Magazine
• Brown Daily Herald
• College Hill Independent
• Cranston Herald
• EastBayRI.com
• East Side Monthly
• edible Rhody
• Federal Hill Gazette
• GoLocalProv
• The Hummel Report
• I {Heart} Rhody.
• Indian Country
• Indianz.com
• Jamestown Press
• Johnston Insider
• Johnston Sunrise
• A Lively Experiment
• Newport Betty
• Newport Daily News
• Newport Life Magazine
• Newport Mercury
• Newport Now
• North Kingstown-East Greenwich Independent
• Patch.com
• Pawtucket Times
• Prospect
• Providence Business News
• Providence College Cowl
• Providence Daily Dose
• Providence History Examiner by Betsy Cazden.
• Providence Journal
• Providence Monthly
• Providence Phoenix
• Retro RI
• Rhode Island College Anchor
• Rhode Island Free Press.
• Rhode Island Historical Society Graphics Collection Survey Project
• Rhode Island Monthly
• Rhode Island Roads Magazine
• The Rhode Less Traveled.
• RhodyBeat.com
• RICentral.com (Kent County Times, Narragansett Times, Standard-Times, Pendulum, Chariho Times, Coventry Courier)
• RIFuture.org.
• South County Independent
• SO Rhode Island
• University of Rhode Island Good 5 Cent Cigar
• Valley Breeze
• Warwick Beacon
• Westerly Sun
• Woonsocket Call
• Woonsocket Wramblings
• Your Smithfield Magazine

Miscellaneous Links of Interest

• Abandoned and Little-Known Airfields of Rhode Island by Paul Freeman.
• African Slave Markers in Colonial Newport, A Visual Remembrance.
• All for the Union by Geoffrey C. Ward.
• American Forts: Rhode Island by Pete Payette.
• American Indian Place Names in Rhode Island: Past and Present by Frank Waabu O'Brien, Ph.D.
• The American Revolution.
• Antique Bottles of Rhode Island, compiled by the Little Rhody Bottle Club.
• Artillery Pieces on Public Display in Rhode Island, by John Mead Gould.
• ArtInRuins.com, focusing on Providence-area architecture
• An Atlas of the Rhode Island Book Trade in the Eighteenth Century.
• Base: Advancing a Post-Military Landscape, by Erik Carlson and Erica Carpenter, documenting the last days the Quonset Point Naval Air Station and the Davisville Naval Construction Battalion Center.
• Battery B, First Rhode Island Light Artillery.
• Henry Sweetser Burrage by Renee Gamache; Brown University schooldays on the eve of the Civil War.
• Burrillville History by Patricia Mehrtens.
• Captor of the Barefoot General by Leonard Falkner.
• Chantilly by Bill Barol.
• Class and Leisure at America's First Resort: Newport, Rhode Island, 1870-1914 by Kay Davis
• Crescent Park Amusement Park by Don Gregory.
• Driftways.com.
• Marie Rose Ferron.
• Forgetaboutit?: Remembering Rhode Island's Good Ol' Days.
• The Forgotten by Kari Molvar; Black at Brown in the 1890s.
• ForgottenBottles.com.
• A Gould Island Chronology and Some Associated Historical Notes by Captain Frank Snyder (USN Ret).
• Guide to Lovecraftian Sites in Rhode Island.
• Historic Ales, Beers, and Breweries of Rhode Island by Ed and Greg Theberge.
• Historical Marker Database.
• Historic Buildings and Structures of Rhode Island.
• Historic North Kingstown.
• The History of the Brewing Industry in Rhode Island.
• Homelessness is not a Crime: Elizabeth Buffum Chace and Creation of the State Home and School for Children, 1875-1885 by Elizabeth C. Stevens
• How Rhode Island Decriminalized Prostitution by Lynn Arditi. Response: How I Advanced the Cause, by Matthew J. Smith.
• The Hunt for the Regicides by Alexander Winston.
• Hurricane Carol by Greg Stone; "The 1954 hurricane as seen through the eyes and camera of a Barrington boy."
• Journal of the American Revolution.
• Kate was too Ambitious by Marva Robins Belden and Thomas Graham Belden.
• The Kentish Guards.
• King Philip's War and the Colonial Contact Period in and around Barrington and Warren, R.I., and Swansea, Massachusetts by Dave Weed.
• The Ladd School Virtual Museum.
• Tony Lepore, The Dancing Cop.
• Little Caeser by Austin Kennedy; about the fortunes of Italian immigrant Giuseppe Zambarano, based on his 1894-1909 diary.
• Longfellow and the Jewish Semetery at Newport by Irving Filzig.
• Lost Rhode Island Ski Areas.
• The H.P. Lovecraft Archive.
• Lovecraft in Providence.
• Lucy and the Chinese Bandits by Meryl Rothstein.
• Mad Peck Studios.
• The Man Who Can Scare Stephen King by Curt Wohleber.
• Rose Martin.
• "Meet Me Under the Shepard's Clock", montage video with original song by Billy Mitchell from his CD Detour.
• The Minister and the Mill Girl by George Howe.
• Mrs. Gus's Doughboys.
• Narragansett Park, 1934-1978.
• New England Civil War Discovery Trail.
• New England Farmways.
• Newport in Winter by Carla Davidson.
• Newport Postcard Museum.
• Nipmuc Place Names of New England.
• Old Stone Mill, Newport.
• One-Room Schoolhouses of Exeter, 1766-1952.
• The Pawtuxet Rangers.
• The Perils of Immortality by Ellen Feldman.
• Poorhouse History: Rhode Island.
• Printers and Printing in Providence, 1762-1907.
• The Providence Grays.
• The Providence Mob by Allan May.
• Providence Patriots Stadium; 1997 video making the case for the building of a new stadium in Providence for the New England Patriots.
• Public Archaeology Lab.
• Recent Past Providence.
• Remembering RI.
• RetroRI.com.
• Rhode Island Colonial Charter, 1663-2013.
• Rhode Island, A Guide to the Smallest State (1937), full text of the Federal Writer's Project guide.
• Rhode Island Highways by Michael Kendricks
• Rhode Island Historical Preservation and Heritage Commission survey publications
• Rhode Island and the Civil War, by Flo Janic.
• Rhode Island Lighthouse History
• Rhode Island Movie Theatres and Drive-Ins by Mike Rivest.
• Rhode Island Rocks.
• Rhode Journey.
• Rhombic Antennas on Chopmist Hill Help Win World War II by Jim McDonald
• Rocky Point Amusement Park by Joe.
• Roger Williams: The Verin Case.
• Shipwrecks of Rhode Island by Dave Clancy.
• Silent Night by Alex Eichler.
• The Smallpox Journal of Solomon Drown by Kate Schrire.
• Spring of '17: A Providence R.I. Vaudeville Data Mashup by Micah Salkind.
• Slavery in Rhode Island from Slavery in the North by Douglas Harper.
• So eager were we all... by Private Lewis Herbert Melcalf with an introduction by Bruce Catton.
• State of Rhode Island Historic Property Search.
• Station Fire Memorial Foundation.
• The Stumbling Block by Pamela Petro.
• The Story of 'Big Al' Pavlow and Super Records by Rick Bellaire.
• Take a Trip Back To Rocky Point in 1957, highlights of home movies shot by Irene Campbell, mother of Providence City Archivist Paul Campbell.
• The Tragedy of King Philip and the Destruction of the New England Indians by Jennifer Leighty; about the Brown University suicide pill controversy of 1984.
• 328 Headlines and a Protest by George Howe.
• Vampire's Grasp by Michael E. Bell, Ph.D
• The View from Swamptown by G. Timothy Cranston.
• Voices and Visions of Pawtuxet Village.
• Waiting, 1938 by Alice Lovejoy; a story of the Providence Journal and the Hurricane of 1938
• Warwick Digital History Project.
• Warwick Musical Theatre.
• The Wayward Commodore by Richard O'Connor.
• WhatWasThere.com.
• Wickford Tales by Anita W. Hinckley.
• The Wolf Hill Plane Crash by Jim Ignasher.
• The Wonderful Leaps of Sam Patch by Richard M. Dorson.
• Zion in the Forest by Roger Burlingame.

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This article last edited March 1, 2013