Rhode Island

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Excerpt from Rhode Island: A Poem Delivered at the Annual Reunion: Of the Rhode Island Association of California, at Fassking's Gardens, Alameda, October 7, 1876
1. The name and productions of the State.
2. Building of the old Tower of Newport.
3. Banishment and Wanderings of Roger Williams.
4. The sufferings of the infant State tend to strengthen it.
5. The terrible "Narragansett Fight" at South Kingstown.
6. Ballad of the "Devil's Rock" in North Kingstown.
7. King Phillip retires to "Mount Hope," and dies by Treason.
8. Centennial Day, and the heroes of the Revolution.
9. The young Warwick blacksmith, who hammered Earl Cornwallis and received blows in return.
10. The Mansion House and story of a Shipwreck.
11. The good old Deacon and his treasure-trove.
12. Perry's Victory on Lake Erie, war of 1812.
13. The Sons of Rhode Island in the Civil War.
14. The City on the Bay. Closing.
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