On my summer tour of Brown, the guide mentioned that the top of the sciences library (SciLi) was the highest point in Rhode Island. I was intending to reference this in an essay, but I went to fact-check it on Google and instead, “Jerimoth Hill” is given as the highest point. Still, I found other sources saying SciLi was the highest, and I’m wondering if anyone knows for sure. (This is an oddly specific question, I know!)
I would assume that the top of a building doesn’t actually count as the “highest point” in any state.
I always assumed it was the combination of the building and the hill that made it the highest but that that’s not how “highest points” are actually determined. For example if you google highest point in manhattan you get Hudson Heights at ~200 feet and the empire state building is clearly much taller than that.
I think of “highest point” in any state as highest natural point (i.e. a hill, not a building).
I know this is like a month and a half old, but Jeremiah Hill is the highest place in RI. I live in Providence and I’ve never heard of SciLi being the highest place
We really don’t have these arguments in Colorado.