
For decades, Rhode Islanders have sought a permanent facility to house, preserve and exhibit the documents collected in the state archives. A July 1924 Providence Journal article immortalizes an office fire in which then-Secretary of State Ernest L. Sprague saved the Rhode Island Royal Charter signed by King Charles II in 1663 from the flames.
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