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Roger Williams Grave at Prospect Terrace

Providence, RI

Roger Williams and his wife Mary were reinterred beneath the large monument at Prospect Terrace in 1939. Their earlier burial became famous because an apple-tree root grew through the grave in a human-like shape, the same root preserved by the Rhode Island Historical Society. This stop completes that story at Williams's present resting place.

Filed under weird history: real events too strange to have made the textbook.

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Source: nps.gov/places/prospect-terrace.htm

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