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Greenwich Bay from Oakland Beach Camp Wetmore, R.I. brigade militia, July 7th to 11th, 1885, Oakland Beach. 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 ...
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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. Buttonwood Beach was founded as a summer colony in 1871 by the Rev. Moses Bixby of Providence's Cranston Street Baptist Church , who was looking for a place to establish a summer ...
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 ]
William S. Wetmore conducted an active community life in Newport as a founder and incorporator of the Newport Historical Society in 1854, as the first and continuing chairman of the Newport Reading Room, 1854–1861, and as a Director of the Redwood Library from 1856 to 1862. Wetmore was one of sixteen Newporters who joined to contribute ...
The Seth Wetmore House is a residence built in the Center-Hall Colonial style in 1746 at 1066 Washington Street, Middletown, Connecticut. It was built of Clapboard siding , Brownstone foundation with asphalt shingle roof using a structural system of wood frame , post and beam with gable roof.
Sagamore Camp, Hamilton County, NY "Sagamore Camp" (1897), great camp in the Adirondack Mountains. "Oakland Farm" (remodeled and expanded 1901), Portsmouth, Rhode Island, colonial era home he transformed into a summer home. "Vanderbilt Hotel" (1913), a hotel in Manhattan, New York, on Park Avenue and 34th Street. The penthouse served as a city ...
The Wetmore was built in 1891 as hull #112 of the American Steel Barge Company works. [2] The Wetmore was 264 ft (80 m) long with a beam of 38 ft (12 m) and a 16.4 ft (5.0 m) draft and gross tonnage of 3,000. Her power was a single 700 horsepower (520 kW) steam engine, but she also had four jury masts with sails for emergency use.