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Topiary animals in the Garden Brayton House at Green Animals Topiary Garden. The Green Animals Topiary Garden, located in Portsmouth, Rhode Island, is the oldest and most northern topiary garden in the United States. The 7-acre (28,000 m 2) estate overlooks the Narragansett Bay. It contains a large collection of topiaries including eighty ...
Green Animals Topiary Garden: Portsmouth: Newport Historic house 80 topiary animals and an 1859 Victorian house museum with displays of vintage toys & furnishings Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology: Providence Providence Anthropology Part of Brown University: Hearthside: Lincoln: Providence Historic house Early 19th century stone mansion Hera ...
Portsmouth is a town in Newport County, Rhode Island, United States.The population was 17,871 at the 2020 U.S. census.Portsmouth is the second-oldest municipality in Rhode Island, after Providence; it was one of the four colonies which merged to form the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, the others being Providence, Newport, and Warwick.
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Hope Island. Hope Island is a 91-acre (0.368 km 2) island located in Narragansett Bay in the State of Rhode Island.It is part of the Narragansett Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, along with nearby Prudence Island and Patience Island, and home to colonial wading birds during their nesting season of spring and summer.
Greenvale Farm is an historic farm and 19th-century summer estate at 582 Wapping Road in Portsmouth, Rhode Island.Historically used for farmland, a portion of this 53-acre (21 ha) was transformed into an expansive country estate in the 1860s by John Barstow, a Boston merchant.
Patience Island lies off the northwest coast of Prudence Island in the town of Portsmouth, Rhode Island, United States. It has a land area of 0.33 sq mi (0.85 km 2; 210 acres), making it the fourth-largest island in Narragansett Bay. Aside from a single 600-square foot house, which is disconnected from the state electrical grid, Patience Island ...
Barrington is located on the east shore of Narragansett Bay, 10 miles southeast of Providence via U.S. 95 and 195. (195 connects with RI 114, which becomes County Road at the White Church in Barrington, Main Street in Warren, and Hope Street in Bristol) No point in Barrington is more than two miles from salt water.