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Rhode Island

Bird

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The Rhode Island bird is the Rhode island red. Breeders developed the Rhode Island Red chicken as a utility bird in the late 1800s.They will bless you with 5-6 eggs per week, which equates to around 250-300 eggs per year.

Flower

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Rhode Island was the first of four states to choose the violet, but the last to formally do so. Rhode Island school children voted for the common blue violet over ten other candidates in 1897.

Flag

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Its white background corresponded to the facings on state militia uniforms worn during the Revolution. The flag's anchor and motto were represented in Rococo style and encircled by blue stars corresponding to the number of states in the Union.

By: H.Rafferty

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