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"HISTORIC AMERICA" SERIES.
A FEW RODS EAST OF
THIS SPOT STOOD THE
HOUSE
OF
ROGER WILLIAMS
FOUNDER OF PROVIDENCE
1636
NUMBER 237 NORTH MAIN ST.
UNDER THIS HOUSE
STILL FLOWS
ROGER WILLIAMS
SPRING
NUMBER 242 NORTH MAIN ST.
NOW
ROGER WILLIAMS SPRING PARK
BRONZE TABLETS MARKING SITE OF ROGER WILLIAMS HOUSE AND SPRING (LANDING PLACE),
PROVIDENCE, R. I. COPYRIGHT BY J. D. ALLARDICE. NO. 5 ON LOCATION CARD.
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ALLAR
ROGER WILLIAMS HOUSE SITE, PROVIDENCE, R. I.
The house at No. 237 N. Main St., occupies a part of
the original home lot of Roger Williams. A tablet on this
house indicates where Roger Williams' house stood. Remains
of wall and stonework which formed his hearth are found there.
SITE OF ROGER WILLIAMS SPRING (LANDING PLACE),
PROVIDENCE, R. I.
Marked by a tablet on building at No. 242 N. Main St.
The Landing of Roger Williams and His Companions, June,
1636, by the Late Chief Justice Thomas Durfee.
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JESSIE D. ALLARDICE, PUBLISHER, PROVIDENCE, R. I.
POSTCARS TOURS
TRADE
MARK
"They entered the cove whose natural basin receiving the
unpolluted tides of the bay and the virgin waters of the Woon-
asquatucket and the Moshassuck, diffuse them widely into inlet
and pool, across sandy bar and over sedgy flats (now traversed
by busy thoroughfares but then frequented only by flocks of
feeding water-fowl or by the dusky fowler in his frail canoe.)
They continued their stately course until before them they
beheld a spring, which, gushing from the verdant turf and
pouring its crystal tribute to the cove invites them to disem-
bark. There beaching their boat on the smooth white sand,
they step ashore. .. They slake their thirst at the spring,
they invoke the divine blessing and Providence Plantations are
begun."
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