Front:
HISTORIC AMERICA" SERIES.
KAMI
OLD STATE HOUSE, RHODE ISLAND'S INDEPENDENCE HALL", PROVIDENCE, R. I. NO. 4 ON LOCATION CARD.
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ALLAR
112208
JESSIE D. ALLA DICE, PUBLISHER, PROVIDENCE, R..I.
POSTCARD TOURS
TRADE
MARK
OLD STATE HOUSE
Rhode Island's "Independence Hall," West Front 155 N. Main
St., East Front 150 Benefit St., Providence, R. I.
In this building "whose history is so interwoven with that
of the nation" took place the momentous. Act that gave R. I.
claim to leadership in renouncing British rule (May 4, 1776).
It was built by the Colony in 1760-1762 for a Court House.
It was used by the State for a State House until 1900 and is a
reminder of the long period of history when R. I. had two
Capitals. The historic building is now used by the Sixth Dis-
trict Court. On a wall of the court room a tablet commemo-
rates R. I.'s "Declaration of Independence," it states:
"The House Of Deputies In This Room Passed-
The House Of Magistrates The Same Date Concurring-
The Act Constituting Rhode Island The First Free And
Independent Republic in America And Asserting Her
Absolute Independence Of England Two Months Before
The Declaration Of Independence In Philadelphia."
"To commemorate the event this tablet is placed by the Inde-
pendence Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution
May 4, 1913."
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