On Hope St. is a row of preserved colonial homes. The town is the seat of Roger Williams College and the Rhode Island Soldiers' Home. Mt. Hope Bridge connects Bristol with Portsmouth. 4 Industrial city on the Tenn.-Va. The two cities, although separate municipalities, are economically a unit that is the transportation and processing center of a mountainous region.
Livestock is raised and electronic equipment is produced there.
Two hundred years of controversy preceded the location of the state line down the middle of State Street. King College is in Bristol's Tennessee section, and Virginia Intermont College is on the Virginia side. In the area are Bristol Caverns and an international car-raceway.