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Roger Williams founds Providence
1636
Providence, Rhode Island
Kenneth C. Zirkel · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Banished from Massachusetts for arguing that the state had no business in religion and that the king could not grant land the Narragansett already owned, he walked out in midwinter and bought ground from them instead. He called it Providence and let in Quakers, Jews and Baptists, the first place in America with genuine separation of church and state.
That was 1 of the hidden places.
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