Historic sites of Lincoln RI
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The town of Lincoln is full of historic houses and places of interest.
From the Chase farm (and its Butterfly Gardens) to the historic Hannaway Blacksmith shop to Hearthside, the 1810 house built by Stephen Hopkins Smith with his winnings from the Louisiana State Lottery. When he showed it to the girl he built it for,she asked him why anyone would want to live in such a wilderness. Legend has it that due to this rejection, Smith never married
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