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October 19
Lifelong Learners: Lost Park Walking Tour, Providence
October 20
Hauntings of Linden Place Guided Tour, Bristol
October 21
Providence Gallery Night, Providence
Bristol Tales of the Slave Trade Walking Tour, Bristol
October 22-23
Night at the Haunted Museum, Providence
October 23
Federal Hill Culinary and History Tour, Providence
Gone But Not Forgotten: Victorian Mourning Exhibit and Tour, Saylesville, Lincoln
October 23-24
H.P. Lovecraft Walking Tour and Film Screening, Providence
October 24
Gone But Not Forgotten: Victorian Mourning Exhibit and Tour, Saylesville, Lincoln
October 26
Newport: The City as a Work of Art, Newport
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October 19th in Rhode Island history*
1659
Quaker Mary Dyer is condemned at Boston, along with William Robinson and Marmaduke Stevenson.
1781
General Charles Cornwallis surrenders at Yorktown, Virginia, thereby bringing an end to the American Revolution.
1922
At around 2am, off Watch Hill, fire breaks out in a forward freight compartment of the steamship Concord of the Colonial Line, bound from New York for Providence. The steamship Mohegan lends aid, taking off the Concord's 116 passengers, and its officers helping to fight the flames.
1978
The Narragansett Historical Society is founded.
1992
After seven years of construction costing $160 million, the new Jamestown-Verrazzano Bridge is officially opened.
2019
Actress Jennifer Lawrence weds Cooke Maroney at Belcourt of Newport. The 150-person guest list includes Adele, Kris Jenner, Amy Schumer, Emma Stone, and Ashley Olsen.
