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    The Old Colony House, also known as Old State House or Newport Colony House, is located at the east end of Washington Square in the city of Newport, Rhode...
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  • Old State House or Old Statehouse may refer to: Old Colony House, Newport, Rhode Island, also known as Old State House Old State Capitol (Kentucky), also...
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  • California Colony House (Keene, New Hampshire), listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Cheshire County, New Hampshire Old Colony House, Newport...
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    The Old Colony Club is one of the oldest Gentlemen's Clubs in the United States, founded in 1769 in Plymouth, Massachusetts. The club was founded in January...
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    to Old Colony House in Newport, Rhode Island, a building which Isham had also restored in 1932. The original capitol of Delaware was the State House (now...
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    A leper colony, also known by many other names, is an isolated community for the quarantining and treatment of lepers, people suffering from leprosy. M...
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    the transformation of Newport from a relatively relaxed summer colony of wooden houses to its current image as a resort of opulent stone palaces. The...
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    head of each of the Old Three Hundred families who received a land grant in Austin's colony. They were: Long, Christopher. "Old Three Hundred". Handbook...
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    A Crown colony or royal colony was a colony governed by England, and then Great Britain or the United Kingdom within the English and later British Empire...
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    The Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations received its royal charter in 1663. Benedict Arnold was elected as the first governor. The Old Colony...
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    rapid transit route at what was previously Popes Hill Station of the Old Colony Railroad. A Dunkin' Donuts store now occupies the area between the two...
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    arthritis in children who lived in Lyme and Old Lyme. The Florence Griswold House in Old Lyme housed an art colony for many years in the early 20th century...
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    The Colony of Virginia was an English, later British, colonial settlement in North America between 1606 and 1776. The first effort to create an English...
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    Roanoke Colony (/ˈroʊənoʊk/ ROH-ə-nohk) was an attempt by Sir Walter Raleigh to found the first permanent English settlement in America. The colony was founded...
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  • The Old Lyme art colony of Old Lyme, Connecticut was established in 1899 by American painter Henry Ward Ranger, and was in its time the most famous art...
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    The Arc at Old Colony (Old Colony Building until 2015) is a 17-story landmark building in the Chicago Loop community area of Chicago, Illinois. Designed...
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    Peacefield, also called Peace field or Old House, is a historic home formerly owned by the Adams family of Quincy, Massachusetts. It was the home of United...
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    A colony is a territory subject to a form of foreign rule. Though dominated by the foreign colonizers, the rule remains separate to the original country...
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    Lansdowne portrait (category Art in the White House)
    Connecticut State House in Hartford; and two for Rhode Island—one for the State House in Providence, and the other for Old Colony House in Newport. The...
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    Plymouth Colony (sometimes Plimouth) was the first permanent English colony in New England from 1620 and the third permanent English colony in America...
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    style then being popularized in London by Sir Christopher Wren. The Old Colony House and the Brick Market stand at opposite ends of Washington Square, then...
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    September 1866 in Jaffa. They founded the American colony, named Adams City. They erected their wooden houses from prefabricated pieces, which they had brought...
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    Hammersmith Farm (category Houses completed in 1887)
    mother, sold the main house and moved into one of the guesthouses on the farm, called "The Castle". There was another guest house on the farm built to...
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    some property on the old Castle Hill Farm and played golf on a primitive course. He convinced a few pals from the summer colony's social elite, men such...
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    Connecticut Colony or Colony of Connecticut, originally known as the Connecticut River Colony or simply the River Colony, was an English colony in New England...
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    The following is a list of historic Old Colony Railroad (OCRR) stations, at the time of the 1893 lease by the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad...
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    River, in what is today Old Saybrook and environs. John Winthrop, the Younger, son of the Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, was designated governor...
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    Aden Colony (Arabic: مُسْتْعَمَرَةْ عَدَنْ, Musta'marat 'Adan), also the Colony of Aden, located in the south of contemporary Yemen, was a crown colony of...
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    The Massachusetts Bay Colony (1628–1691), more formally the Colony of Massachusetts Bay, was an English settlement on the east coast of North America around...
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    who traveled to North America on Mayflower and established the Plymouth Colony in Plymouth, Massachusetts (John Smith had named this territory New Plymouth...
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