Pocasset, Massachusetts

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Rivers & Roads in Song near Pocasset

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Interstate 95 13 songs Massachusetts Turnpike 2 songs

History of Pocasset

The Borden House RoadyGoat

1892

On the morning of August 4, 1892, Andrew and Abby Borden were killed inside their home at 92 Second Street in Fall River, Massachusetts. The only person indicted for the murders was Andrew's thirty-two-year-old daughter Lizzie, who was acquitted after a nationally followed trial and who lived out the rest of her life in the same city under the same watchful eyes. The case was never officially solved. The house still stands on a modest working-class block, and today it operates as a bed-and-breakfast and museum; guests can stay in the same rooms the Bordens slept in on their last night. It is one of the few places in America where you can rent a bed in a murder scene and sleep through the whole thing, if you are able.

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The City That Sets Its Rivers on Fire RoadyGoat

Providence is the rare city that literally sets its rivers on fire and calls it art. WaterFire, created by artist Barnaby Evans, fills the downtown rivers with dozens of floating bonfires on metal braziers; it grew from an eleven-fire New Year's piece in 1994 into the full multi-fire installation by 1996, drawing crowds along the water at dusk. Up the hill, Federal Hill is the city's Italian-American dining heart, and you enter beneath an arch on Atwells Avenue hung with La Pigna, a bronze pinecone (often mistaken for a pineapple) that's an old symbol of welcome. Downtown sits The Arcade, built in 1828 and widely called the oldest enclosed shopping mall in America, once nicknamed 'Butler's Folly.' Add Brown University, founded in 1764, and the Rhode Island School of Design, and you've got a small capital that punches far above its weight.

15.7 mi away

The Gilded-Age Cliff Walk RoadyGoat

Newport is where America's richest families built 'summer cottages' the size of palaces. The grandest is The Breakers, a seventy-room Renaissance Revival mansion put up between 1893 and 1895 for Cornelius Vanderbilt II — marble shipped from Italy and Africa, mosaics and rare woods from around the globe, designed by Richard Morris Hunt. It is still Rhode Island's most-visited attraction. Behind The Breakers and its neighbors runs the Cliff Walk, a free public path roughly three and a half miles long pinned between the mansion lawns and the crashing Atlantic — a National Recreation Trail where ordinary walkers get the same ocean view the Vanderbilts paid a fortune for. Newport was a sailing town long before the millionaires arrived, and the harbor still fills with masts every summer. Old money, open sea.

16.7 mi away

Lizzie Borden House

1892

Site of the August 4, 1892 murders of Andrew and Abby Borden in Fall River; daughter Lizzie was tried and acquitted.

Bristol Fourth of July Parade Route

1785

Bristol has held a Fourth of July celebration every year since 1785, making it the oldest continuous Independence Day observance in the United States.

6.0 mi away

Coggeshall Farm Museum

1790

A working historical farm in Bristol that re-creates life in coastal Rhode Island during the 1790s, with heritage breed animals and period farming techniques.

5.3 mi away

Green Animals Topiary Garden

1880

The oldest and most northern topiary garden in the United States, featuring over eighty sculpted trees and shrubs shaped into animals, geometric forms, and ornamental designs.

9.2 mi away

Gaspee Point

1772

On June 9, 1772, Rhode Island colonists boarded and burned the British revenue schooner HMS Gaspee, one of the first acts of violent resistance leading to the American Revolution.

11.7 mi away

India Point Park

1680

Historic waterfront where Providence's merchant fleet sailed to trade with China, India, and the Caribbean, and where the city's complex relationship with the slave trade began.

14.7 mi away

Everything Near Pocasset

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