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Weekapaug Inn is a historic inn at 25 Spray Rock Road in Westerly, Rhode Island.. In 1899, Phebe and Frederick C. Buffum built the original Weekapaug Inn on a strip of land between the Quonochontaug Pond and the Atlantic Ocean in the community of Weekapaug, Rhode Island.
Often referred to by locals as "Quonnie Pond", or "Quonnie", [1] the lagoon is bounded on the south by coastal beaches, with a narrow breach way, created by the Army Corps of Engineers in the 1950s, providing access to Block Island Sound, and the Atlantic Ocean. The westernmost side of Quonnie is the site of the Weekapaug Inn, whose restaurants ...
"Weekapaug" is a Narragansett word meaning "at the end of the pond". [citation needed] The area is not as well known as neighboring Watch Hill, although it has had summer cottages since 1877. It was known as "Noyes Beach" from 1701 to 1899, named after Reverend James Noyes who purchased 300 acres (1.2 km 2).
The letters sent out to GoFundMe donors could have a chilling effect, Steven Brown, the executive director of the Rhode Island ACLU, wrote in a letter to the Weekapaug Fire District on Thursday.
Winnapaug Pond (also known as Brightman Pond [2]) is a breached saltwater lagoon in Westerly, Rhode Island, United States, connected to Block Island Sound by the Weekapaug Breachway, which was constructed during the mid-1950s. [3] [4] The 2.5-mile (4.0 km) lake is separated from the Atlantic by a large sandbar.
Clay Pit Ponds State Park Preserve is 265-acre (1.07 km 2) state park [2] located near the southwestern shore of Staten Island, New York. [5] It is the only state park located on Staten Island. History
Luis Al Coser reels in his line, Wednesday, June 12, 2024, at Bicentennial Nature Area in Lafayette, Ind.
This is intended to be a complete list of properties and districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places on Staten Island, or in other words in Richmond County, New York, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts (at least for all showing latitude and longitude coordinates below) may be seen in a ...