Made From RI Celebrates October 5th - Rhode Island Day

Posted by Keith R Wahl, Made From RI on Oct 5th 2021

Reasons to love Rhode Island

Founded by Roger Williams in 1636 by Roger Williams based on the idea of religious and political freedom
The first act of Revolt, the Burning of the HMS Gaspee in 1772
First to secede from Great Britain on May 4, 1776
Samuel Slater started the United States Industrial Revolution in Pawtucket, Rhode Island in 1790
The National Lawn Tennis Hall of Fame and Museum was founded in 1954 by Jimmy Van Alen at the Newport Casino (now the International Tennis Hall of Fame)
On October 4, 1895, the first U.S. Open Championship was hosted by the United States Golf Association on the nine-hole course of Newport Country Club
Over 400 miles of coastline in 1212 square miles
The idea of village life in the United States? It's a Rhode Island thing (Warwick, Rhode Island)
Newport's Ida Lewis who saved so many in peril on the sea
Innovative engineers like Nathanael Herreshoff (The Wizard Of Bristol and successful America's Cup defender)
Thomas Dorr, who defended and challenged to reform the political system in the United States