When thinking about Rhode Island history, vampires is not often a image that comes to mind right away, unless you are asking the right person. Most will tell you of its colonial origins, or the booming slave trade, or the dawn of the industrial revolution. Not many will mention figures such as Nellie Vaughn or Mercy Brown. Unless, of course, the person being asked is into that kind of thing. I am one of these …
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…lt;Tab/>All in all, this project was good look into Rhode Island's darker side of history. Rural communities of the 19th century went through somewhat of a vampire hunt, with five vampire cases involving exhumations altogether, dating back to 1796. Brown was the last suspected vampire ever exhumed in the state in 1882. This obscure period in Rhode Island's history is an interesting, yet rarely mentioned subject, and I had fun learning about it.