rhode island state tree Archives - TravelsFinders.Com ® http://travelsfinders.com/tag/rhode-island-state-tree Tue, 28 Mar 2017 15:17:12 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.4 Rhode Island http://travelsfinders.com/rhode-island.html http://travelsfinders.com/rhode-island.html#respond Mon, 06 Jun 2016 10:45:00 +0000 http://travelsfinders.com/?p=205196 Chronology 1650s-1670s The first migrants from Latin America arrive. Jewish settlers, originally from Spain and Portugal, migrate via the West Indies and settle in Newport. 1730s Additional Jewish migrants arrive from Curasao. 1870 The U.S. census indicates that only 82 Rhode Island residents are born in Latin America. That figure will remain below 1,000 until the midtwentieth century. 1920s Puerto Ricans begin arriving in Rhode Island as seasonal workers on farms in the southern part of the state. 1964 The first migrants from Colombia arrive in Central Falls to work in textile mills. 1970 With help from the Diocese of

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