The National Register of Historic Places contains more than 85,000 sites, but only some 2,500 of them have been listed as National Historic Landmarks. New England is home to hundreds of these particularly significant structures, objects and places.
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The Great Seal of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations
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| RHODE ISLAND Joseph Reynolds House, Bristol
The oldest known three-story timber frame house in New England, built in 1700. It was used as headquarters by the Marquis de Lafayette during the Revolutionary War's Rhode Island campaign in 1778.
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