We may be the smallest state but here are a few facts about RI I didn't even know about:
A little quiz to start the day:
1) The first auto race on an oval track was held in what city, and in what year?
2) Name the oldest business in the United States that is still owned and operated by the same family? And you hit the genius category if you know where the business is and in what year it was founded?
3) Name the town/city that is home to the largest sequoia tree east of the Mississippi River?
4) The first apple trees in America were planted in what community, and when?
5) What is the oldest shopping mall in America and where is it?
6) Name the state that is home to one-fifth of all the historic landmarks in the United States?
The answers:
1) NASCAR might be approaching its 60th anniversary (it was founded in 1948), but the first auto race on an oval was held 110 years ago in Cranston -- before 60,000 spectators, at that. Not to be outdone, Cranston also played host to the first auto race on a paved oval, in 1915.
2) The Ashaway Line & Twine Mfg. Co. was founded by the Crandall family in Hopkinton in 1824 and is still run by descendants of the founders.
3) Bristol. The grand redwood is on the grounds of the Blithewold mansion, which is open to the public.
4) Cumberland in 1625.
5) The Arcade in Providence was built in 1828.
6) Rhode Island
A little quiz to start the day:
1) The first auto race on an oval track was held in what city, and in what year?
2) Name the oldest business in the United States that is still owned and operated by the same family? And you hit the genius category if you know where the business is and in what year it was founded?
3) Name the town/city that is home to the largest sequoia tree east of the Mississippi River?
4) The first apple trees in America were planted in what community, and when?
5) What is the oldest shopping mall in America and where is it?
6) Name the state that is home to one-fifth of all the historic landmarks in the United States?
The answers:
1) NASCAR might be approaching its 60th anniversary (it was founded in 1948), but the first auto race on an oval was held 110 years ago in Cranston -- before 60,000 spectators, at that. Not to be outdone, Cranston also played host to the first auto race on a paved oval, in 1915.
2) The Ashaway Line & Twine Mfg. Co. was founded by the Crandall family in Hopkinton in 1824 and is still run by descendants of the founders.
3) Bristol. The grand redwood is on the grounds of the Blithewold mansion, which is open to the public.
4) Cumberland in 1625.
5) The Arcade in Providence was built in 1828.
6) Rhode Island