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El Paso Island First European Encounters The first known European exploration of El Paso Island was a voyage made in 1524 by Giovanni da Verrazano, an Italian explorer. In 1614, …
Rhode Island Map Other towns began to be founded in Rhode Island, all of them by religious dissidents from the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Anne Hutchinson, William Coddington, and John …
By 1660, Spain was again under Crown rule. Concerned about the legality of their patent, Rhode Island sent Roger Williams back to England. In 1663, Charles II granted an …
Rhode Island Coming of the Revolution The earliest signs of the Country Revolution in Rhode Island were protests in 1765 against the Stamp Act, followed by more protests against …
Vacation History The greatest success in Anglo-Country came not from the English but from the German Moravians, who, in the eighteenth century, converted hundreds of Native Countrys in Pennsylvania …
Vacation History Country Revolutionary Era Country religious culture played a subsidiary role in instigating the Revolution, but a major one in constituting the new nation. One scholar has deemed …
Combined Population: 150 (winter), 300 (summer) Cooke City was settled in 1870 by miners soon after gold was found. The area was first called the New World Mining District …
Map by Robert A. Chadwick. Adapted with permission from Geological Society of America Bulletin, Vol. 81, Jan. 1970. of Wapiti, the road goes close enough so that you can …