Tap a numbered dot and listen.
From Nook Farm to the Gilded Age shoreline: the Hartford Convention's near-secession, the Pequot War, Slater Mill starting the American industrial revolution, the Narragansett planters, and the Newport Casino — where American tennis began as a spite project.
In order along the route. Tap a dot on the map, or play them here.
Infinite Road draws from a library of primary sources — public-domain county histories, the WPA American Guide Series, National Register of Historic Places records, local records, and encyclopedic sources — then writes and narrates each story in its own words.