Portal:Rhode Island/Did you know/5

... that Trustom Pond in Rhode Island, United States is part of a National Wildlife Refuge that contains over 300 species of birds?
... that Rhode Island industrialist Rowland G. Hazard helped win the release of nearly 100 African-Americans who were being held as slaves in the pre-Civil War American South?
... that American colonialists James Franklin and Ann Smith Franklin established Rhode Island's first printing press?

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