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In 1627, a group of settlers looked for a place to dock. But their rowboat was the smallest ship in the fleet, and they knew they'd never find it again in one of those megastates.
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So instead they landed in present-day Rhode Island, where those big SUS's couldn't fit. And they built a capital and named it after their captain, John Providence.
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The rest of the state was named after his fellow crewmembers: Samuel Newport, Rene Cranston, John Kingston, Bill Westerly, Peter Pawtucket, Lester Woonsocket, ...
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