View of the historic well through crabapple trees — Roger Williams NM NPS photo

Roger Williams National Memorial

National Historic Site · Rhode Island · National Park Service

"I acknowledge that to molest any person, Jew or Gentile, for either professing doctrine, or practicing worship meerly religious or spiritual, is to persecute him, and such a person (whether his doctrine or practice be true or false) suffers persecution for conscience." -Roger Williams, 1644 Banished by the English and saved by the First Peoples, Roger Williams founded Providence here in 1636.

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Phone: 401-521-7266
Official site: www.nps.gov
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