Rhode Island
Rhode Island, the smallest state in US, nickname "the Ocean State" has 400 miles of coastline and the large bays and inlets that comprise about 14% of total area. Rhode Island was a center of the Gilded Age and provided a home or summer home to many of the country's most prominent industrialists. In Newport, New York's wealthiest industrialists created a summer haven to socialize and build grand mansions. There are more than 30 islands within the Narragansett Bay.