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Following that, the clinics were moved to the current medical campus directly north of the old hospital. In February 2010, the Department of Defense declared the hospital site to be surplus. [14] [15] On September 28, 2016, the City council of Newport, RI voted to re-purpose the waterfront land at the Naval Hospital site as a public park. [16] [17]
Newport Hospital at the turn of the 20th century. Newport Hospital was founded in 1873 to provide better medical access to residents of Aquidneck Island, including the many mariners who previously travelled to Providence for treatment, an especially hazardous journey in the winter.
The Navy Supply Corps School (NSCS), located in Newport, Rhode Island, [1] comprises a 20-week training "Basic Qualification Course" (BQC) and other courses for newly commissioned and other Supply Corps officers in the US Navy. Those who successfully complete the courses are designated "Ready for Sea" in the Navy Supply Corps.
She endowed scholarships in the English department. [ 1 ] Vanderbilt bequeathed $1 million to the Newport Hospital , $1 million to the JFK Medical Center in Atlantis, Florida , $200,000 to the Shenandoah County Memorial Hospital in Woodstock, Virginia , and $100,000 to the NewYork–Presbyterian Hospital . [ 5 ]
C. 1900, picture of U.S. Torpedo Station on Goat Island Sailors at the U.S. Torpedo Station in Newport ca. 1910-1926. In 1869, the U.S. Naval Torpedo Station was founded in Newport, Rhode Island on Goat Island, the site of Fort Wolcott which was built in 1702 and served as an Army fort from 1794 to 1835.
The son of Rhode Island President John Coggeshall Sr., he was raised in the village of Castle Hedingham in northeastern Essex where his father was a merchant. [3] Aged about eight, he sailed from England with his parents and surviving siblings, arriving in New England in 1632.
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The Bellevue Avenue/Casino Historic District encompasses a one-block section of Bellevue Avenue in Newport, Rhode Island.Although Bellevue Avenue is best known for the large number of Gilded Age mansions which line it, especially further south, this block is a coherent collection of commercial buildings at the northern end of the mansion row.