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Oakland Beach is a neighborhood and beach located in the South Central area of Warwick, Rhode Island, on Greenwich Bay, a tributary of Narragansett Bay. [1] In the late 1800s, Oakland Beach was the site of Camp Wetmore, the site of six day annual training encampment of the Rhode Island Militia .
File:Camp Wetmore, R.I. brigade militia, July 7th to 11th, 1885, Oakland Beach. LOC 77693699.jpg
George Peabody Wetmore (August 2, 1846 – September 11, 1921) was an American politician who was the 37th Governor of, and a Senator from, Rhode Island. Early life [ edit ]
Maude Alice Keteltas Wetmore (February 7, 1873 – November 3, 1951) was an American political organizer and historical preservationist, based in Newport, Rhode Island. She and her sister lived in the Wetmore family mansion, Chateau-sur-Mer , now a museum in Newport.
Buttonwood Beach is a bucolic neighborhood on the eastern limb of the Nausauket neck, located in the West Bay area of Warwick, Rhode Island. Buttonwoods is delimited by Nausauket and Apponaug to the west, Buttonwoods Cove to the north, Greenwich (aka Cowesett) Bay to the south and Oakland Beach to the east.
Annie Derby Rogers Wetmore (1848–1884), who married William Watts Sherman on July 7, 1871. [5] [2] The Wetmore Boys, George and William Jr., by George Peter Alexander Healy. In Newport, he built Chateau-sur-Mer, one of the first of the grand Bellevue Avenue mansions of the Gilded Age in Newport, Rhode Island.
A second addition by Newport architect Dudley Newton (1845–1907), circa 1890, added a ballroom and service wing. The house remained in private hands until 1951 when it was willed to the Baptist Home of Rhode Island as a home for the aged. In 1963 a hospital wing was added, and in 1982 it was acquired by Salve Regina.
The Newport Reading Room was founded in 1854 by William Shepard Wetmore, a wealthy China trade merchant, and several other notable Newporters, including Yankee traders and Southern planters who summered in Newport. [2] Several of the managing stock holders were full-time Rhode Island residents while others were summer residents. [3]