Portsmouth, Rhode Island
Anthony Road Extension and Old Boyd’s Ln.
GPS coordinates: 41.62739,-71.24629
Take a photo of your rally flag and motorcycle with the above image.*

Off a small dirt road (rideable, if you’d prefer to walk 100 or so yards), is a marker on the site of the Portsmouth Compact of 1638. The Compact was agreed by 23 freemen to form the first government in the world to allow and insure civil and religious liberty to its citizens.

Nearly 150 years before Thomas Jefferson penned the Declaration of Independence severing ties to England and setting the stage for Constitutional guarantees of freedom, these men and their families sought religious freedom in Rhode Island setting up a new colony free from the Massachusetts Bay Colony. This new colony was set up as a new independent colony that was Christian in character but non-sectarian in governance whose citizens “might worship God according to the dictates of conscience, untrammeled by written articles of faith, and unawed by the civil power.”

Also in the area: Down the road off Rt 114, you'll be surrounded by more than 80 wild animals, topiary animals at the Green Animals Topiary Garden in Portsmouth. Further south you'll find the Newport Vineyards and Winery on Rt 138, over 40 years old and producing some excellent white wines you can taste and take home. Of course the famed Mansions of Newport and the Tennis Hall of Fame are down the road in Newport proper. Or stop at any of the Newport Creamery stores on the way and have an Awful Awful, the thickest milkshake around.

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*If motorcycle, rally flag and above image can't be in the same photo, submit two photos: one with rally flag and above image, and another with rally flag and motorcycle nearby. If the site is CLOSED or inaccessible, submit a photo with rally flag and motorcycle nearby, along with an explanation.

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