Read the Museum’s Spring Newsletter for more details on our exciting Programs-All evening programs are free and open to the public!
Old mills are an essential element in southern New England’s historic landscape. Water provided the power for 18th century grist mills and 19th century textile mills, so those mills, and the communities that grew around them, were located on rivers.
Learn about some of local mill villages that have been lost, and some that have persevered in South County’s post-industrial but still largely rural landscape.
For more than two decades, archaeologist and ethnohistorian Timothy H. Ives has studied the Wangunk, a little-known but historically important central Connecticut Native American tribe. Hear about Dr. Ives’s latest research into the tribe’s history and its relations with European settler
Every year, more than 1.5 million people visit Roger Williams Park in Providence, RI. Most of them do not know, and may not care, how the park
came into being. But the person who gave her family farm to the city to create the park should be remembered, not only as a benefactor but as an
independent woman.
Learn about Betsey’s bequest to the city, the radical life she lived with her sister, Rhoda, and her connection to Roger and Mary Williams.
Read the Museum’s Fall Newsletter for more details on our exciting Programs
Coast Guard vessels patrolling Narragansett Bay fired thousands of rounds from machine guns and cannons. The enemy they fired at? The “rummies”— rumrunners in power boats delivering illegal alcohol to secret drop-off points on the coast.
In 2013, archaeologists exploring a location in Marshfield, Mass. in preparation for an airport runway expansion uncovered the buried remains of an entire house— the only 17th century Plymouth Colony house ever to have been completely excavated. Watch Live Stream on our YouTube channel here:
https://www.youtube.com/live/-6IYxT2IUPE?si=IFOcvhtNIEcY1mSb
On Sept. 21, 1804, the merchant ship John Jay sailed out of Providence, bound for Amsterdam and the Far East. Her owners, the Providence firm of Brown & Ives, hoped the voyage would be “prosperous and pleasant,” but it was neither.
Watch Live Stream on our YouTube channel here:
https://www.youtube.com/live/0Je0b44VWxc?si=xrUybswlIK-ojMgj
