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.
Hutto or Georgetown (40 replies). Latest news from Palmer, TX collected exclusively by city-data.com from local newspapers, TV, and radio stations. Ancestries: Irish (13.8%), English (10.5%), German (7.0%), United States (5.5%), Czech (3.3%). Current Local Time: CST time zone. Land area: 2.83 square miles.