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2. Miramar (mansion) - Wikipedia

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   Miramar is a 30,000-square-foot (2,800 m 2) French neoclassical-style mansion on 7.8 acres (32,000 m 2) bordering Bellevue Avenue on Aquidneck Island at Newport, Rhode Island. Overlooking Rhode Island Sound , it was intended as a summer home for the George D. Widener family of Philadelphia .

3. George Gardiner (settler) - Wikipedia

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   George Gardiner (1608/1615 - c. 1677), sometimes spelled Gardner, was an early inhabitant of Newport in the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, and one of the original settlers of Aquidneck Island.

4. National Register of Historic Places listings in Newport ...

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   Location of Newport County in Rhode Island. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Newport County, Rhode Island. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Newport County, Rhode Island, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are ...

5. Goat Island (Rhode Island) - Wikipedia

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   The Past and the Present: Narragansett Sea and Shore, an Illustrated Guide to Providence, Newport, Narragansett Pier, Block Island, Watch Hill, Rocky Point, Silver Spring, and All the Famous Sea-Side Resorts of Rhode Island, with a Map of Narragansett Bay. Providence: J. A. & R. A. Reid. OCLC 191326002. Seavey, George L. (1975).

6. Bellevue Avenue/Casino Historic District - Wikipedia

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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.

7. Silvester Gardiner - Wikipedia

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   In 1783, Dr. Gardiner spent time in St. John's, Newfoundland, and in 1784 wrote a report enumerating its resources, advocating 11 reasons for settlement.In 1785, he returned to Newport, Rhode Island, where he died the following year and was buried under Trinity Church.

8. Newport, Rhode Island - Wikipedia

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   Newport is a seaside city on Aquidneck Island in Rhode Island, United States.It is located in Narragansett Bay, approximately 33 miles (53 km) southeast of Providence, 20 miles (32 km) south of Fall River, Massachusetts, 74 miles (119 km) south of Boston, and 180 miles (290 km) northeast of New York City.

9. Admiral Fitzroy Inn - Wikipedia

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   "Rhode Island – Newport County". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service (retrieved 2008-11-14) Admiral Fitzroy Inn (retrieved 2008-11-14) Jacqueline Lee Bouvier and John Fitzgerald Kennedy Wedding John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, (retrieved 2008-11-12)