Stephen Hopkins

Historical marker location:

15 Hopkins Street, Providence, Rhode Island

( Marker is at the intersection of Hopkins Street and Benefit Street, on the right when traveling east on Hopkins Street.)

Marker installed: 1908

1707 - 1785. Merchant and Ship Builder.

The Narragansett tribe of Native Americans, who lived in the area now known as Rhode Island, were allies of the colonists during the American Revolutionary War, and their warriors fought alongside the Continental Army at the Battle of Rhode Island in 1778.