What is National Rhode Island Day?
National Rhode Island Day, October 5th, honors the last colony to join the Union, wrapping up the original 13 colonies. Wrapping up the original 13 colonies. Originally 13 colonies. On May 4, 1776, the Ocean State joined the Union.
Roger Williams, a Boston lawyer who was imprisoned for his Massachusetts convictions, founded the Rhode Island colony in 1636 at Providence, seeking religious and political independence.
Rhode Island was the only state not to attend the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia in 1787, although the colony was the first to renounce British rule. Although the colony was the first to renounce British rule, Rhode Island was the only state to vote against British rule. Rhode Island deferred signing the Constitution in favour of the introduction of a bill of rights.' Rhode Island finally ratified the charter and became the 13th state, but it wasn't until the Constitution was ratified by nine previous states and the danger of taxation on her exports that she was able to determine it.
After Samuel Slater founded the first textile mill in Pawtucket in 1790, the textile industry boomed in the mid-1900s. Rhode Island converted cloth manufacturing into a lucrative national and export market.
Rhode Islanders have long-played tennis, and it is clearly part of the fabric of their history. Jimmy Van Alen at the Newport Casino in 1954 founded the National Lawn Tennis Hall of Fame and Museum. In 1881, Newport, Rhode Island, host the first national championship for tennis in the United States.
