Betty B
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first heard Aug 2026
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The British occupied it for three years and left it only a shadow of its former self.
Nor did it recover until the middle of the next century.
When a wave of fashion swept into the old place, the
Its attractions were a salubrious climate without extremes of heat or cold the year through
Wide ocean prospects from its cliffs, extensive bathing beaches, and a delightful historic afterglow.
In one of the city parks is the famous old stone mill, which was probably a windmill erected by an early governor about sixteen seventy five.
But which some claim was built by the Norsemen hundreds of years before Columbus discovered America.
Longfellow, in his well known poem, The Skeleton in Armor, makes it the home of a bold Norse sailor and his bride.
When the lady died, the husband buried her under the stone tower and killed himself by falling on his spear.
A little beyond the north end of Aquidneck, on a mainland peninsula is Mount Hope.
The dwelling place of that most famous of New England Indians, King Philip.
His village was at the foot of a rude crag where there was a good spring and where it was sheltered from the rough northwest winds.
He began his war against the whites in sixteen seventy five by
And many an exposed English village was wiped out by the
And hundreds of settlers' lives were sacrificed.
Late that year the greatest battle of the war was fought in the southern part of Rhode Island, not far from Kingston, where nearly two thousand Indians, including women and children, had taken refuge on a palisaded piece of rising ground in the middle of a hideous swamp.
There they were assailed by one thousand one hundred whites and one hundred and fifty friendly Indians in a snowstorm on december nineteenth.
The stronghold was destroyed, many of the savages were killed or perished in the flames, and the rest were fugitives in the winter woods.
The next summer, while Philip, with a few followers, was encamped near Mount Hope, the whites surprised and slew him, and the spot where he fell has been marked by a stone.
Twelve miles off the coast is that popular resort Block Island, about eight miles long and three wide.
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