Portsmouth, Rhode Island
West Main Rd (RI Route 114)
GPS coordinates: 41.601453,-71.258523
Take a photo of your rally flag with the above image.

Inscribed with the names of the 1st Rhode Island Regiment of the Continental Army, this monument is a memorial to one of the earliest desegregated units in the American military. It included more than 750 African Americans and Indians of New England tribes, including the Narragansetts.

Raised by the Rhode Island legislature to dislodge the English who had occupied Newport, blacks and Indians mustered and fought alongside white soldiers in an effort to secure American freedoms. Slaves (both Indian and black) who served in the unit were awarded their freedom at the end of the war. After repelling three assaults by English and Hessian troops on the hill just north of the monument, the regiment went on to fight in other battles of the Revolutionary War including the decisive Battle of Yorktown.

Also in the area: While in Portsmouth look for the Portsmouth Compact Memorial which honors the founders of the first government to insure civil and religious liberty (1638), the grave of Pookie, the Duke & Duchess of Windsor’s pet or a vist to the Bristol Historical and Preservation Society to see the most infamous tombstone in New England – Sarah Swan’s highly ornamented headstone that shocked the Puritans with a lavish carving of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden.

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Tour of Honor-New England is sponsored by Jim Hatch of Simsbury, CT.