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Official
Symbols of Rhode Island The official
name of Rhode Island is The State of Rhode
Island and Providence Plantations. The Rhode
Island Red, a breed of chicken developed at
Little Compton by William Tripp and John
Macomber, was designated the Official State Bird
on May 3, 1954. |
Roger
Williams was banished from the
Massachusetts Bay Colony for declaring that
people should not be punished for religious
differences and subsequently founded the colony
of Rhode Island. |
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