PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) — It’s been nearly four years since Rhode Islanders voted to remove “Providence Plantations” from the state’s legal name. Though the phrase was quickly stripped ...

You don't have to look too hard to find the words Providence Plantations on state buildings, a year and a half after Rhode Island voters deleted them from the state name.. The phrase is still on ...

Rhode Island was incorporated as The State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations when it declared statehood in 1790. In 2010, nearly eight in 10 voters rejected the shorter name in a referendum.

A seal of the State of Rhode Island that was embedded in a walkway outside the State House was removed Wednesday. It was an older version of the emblem that included the words "and Providence ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WJAR) — Changes are gradually unfolding at Rhode Island’s State House to erase the words “Providence Plantations” in some spots. It’s been nearly four years since ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Rhode Island will remove the phrase "Providence Plantations" in the state's formal name from some official documents and executive agency websites, Gov. Gina Raimondo ...

Rhode Island Gov. Gina Raimondo signed an executive order Monday that could change the state’s official name to exclude a portion that has ties to slavery. The state’s official name is “the ...

Rhode Island was incorporated as The State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations when it declared statehood in 1790. There have been efforts to drop the "Providence Plantations" before by ...

Rhode Island was incorporated as The State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations when it declared statehood in 1790. In 2010, nearly eight in 10 voters rejected the shorter name in a referendum.

The name dates to the 17th century, when the Puritan minister Roger Williams founded plantations on the Providence River that later became the colony — and then the state — of Rhode Island.

The state dropped 'Providence Plantations' from its name a year ago, but not from its buildings.