Best Answer: Short: Rhode Island was founded by Roger Williams and Anne Hutchinson in 1636, who have been driven out of Massachusetts by the Puritans because of their religious beliefs.
PALMER, TX. PALMER, TEXAS. Palmer is on Interstate Highway 45 and U.S. Highway 75, twelve miles northeast of Waxahachie in northeastern Ellis County. It was settled after the arrival of the Houston and Texas Central Railway in 1872 and was named for D. S. Palmer, a Houston physician and stockholder of the railroad company.
Today, the city of Palmer is a bedroom community to Anchorage, 40 miles to the south. But at the time of its establishment, the mission was to transplant 200 struggling farming families from the Midwest to Alaska where they would cultivate a new agricultural economy.