Help With College List

privatebanker
Sun, 24 Feb 2019 16:15:36 +0000

@circuitrider Not many would be aware but Brown was chartered in Newport RI with a very long name. The college of Rhode Island and providence plantations. The original campus was in Warren Ri. A village on the bay 15 miles from Providence. It was a seafaring village and the Browns (who were just a few of the 36 incorporators) had holdings there. They also donated a bunch of money later on and the rest is history. Here’s the time line.

“The college was founded as Rhode Island College, on the site of the First Baptist Church at the corner of Main and Miller Streets in Warren, Rhode Island.[5] The first commencement was held in Warren in September 1769.[5] The original church building was burned to the ground by British and Hessian soldiers in 1778, and the present First Baptist Church stands on the original site.[5] However, the College had already moved in 1770 to its present location on College Hill in the East Side of Providence. The first building, the College Edifice, was renamed University Hall in 1823”