Museum Properties
Land Acknowledgement
The National Society of The Colonial Dames of America in The State of Rhode island’s museum properties occupy the traditional homelands of the Narragansett nation. What is now the State of Rhode Island occup[ies the traditional homelands and waterways of the Narragansett nation and the Niantic, Wampanoag and Nipmuc Peoples. We honor and respect the enduring and continuing relationship between these nations and this land by teaching and learning more about their histories and present-day communities, and by becoming stewards of the land we too inhabit. In addition, let us acknowledge the violence of conquest, war, land dispossession and of enslavement endured by Black and Indigenous communities in what is now the United States. Their contemporary efforts to endure in the face of colonialism must be acknowledged, respected and supported.
Adapted from the University of Rhode Island’s Land Acknowledgement
Museum Properties
Whitehall Museum House
Located in Middletown, RI, Whitehall was home to philosopher Dean George Berkeley and his family from 1729 – 1731.
The Stephen Hopkins House
Located in Providence, RI, the Stephen Hopkins House was home to Governor Stephen Hopkins and his family from 1742-1785.
