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Though Native Americans inhabited the Island for thousands of years prior, Fripp Island was first discovered by Europeans in the early 17th century. Fripp Island was named for the British Captain Johannes Fripp, charged with protecting Carolina from Spanish attacks throughout the mid-17th century.
The FRIP was originally proposed by the State of Rhode Island in the mid-1990s to increase the capacity of the electrified Northeast Corridor along a twenty-two-mile corridor from Central Falls, Rhode Island, through Providence, to Quonset Point/ Davisville and to increase overhead clearances to allow for the movement of modern rail equipment, thereby enabling development of the State's Quonset Point/Davisville port facilities.