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Captain Oliver Gardiner House is a historic house prominently located in Warwick, Rhode Island. Built about 1750, it is a 2 + 1 ⁄ 2 -story wood-frame structure with a gambrel roof. Its main facade has six irregularly-spaced bays, with a centrally positioned entrance.
The history of Warwick, Rhode Island, from its settlement in 1642 to the present time: including accounts of the early settlement and development of its several villages; sketches of the origin and progress of the different churches of the town, &c., &c by Oliver Payson Fuller (Angell, Burlingame & co., printers, 1875)pg. 259
In the same year, he was also selected as Warwick's Assistant to the President of Rhode Island Colony, a position that he held seven more times during the next 30 years. [4] He was also elected as Commissioner for six one-year terms from 1652 to 1663, and as a Deputy (precursor to Representative) for eight terms between 1666 and 1686. [ 4 ]
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.
The estate was originally built and owned by Senator Nelson W. Aldrich of Rhode Island and consisted of over 225 acres. The construction of the estate began in 1896 and was completed some 16 years later. In 1901, his daughter, Abby Aldrich, married John D. Rockefeller Jr. at the mansion. In 1939, the Senator's heirs transferred the Aldrich ...
A Rhode Island-based research group originally said it was too premature to call the shipwreck Cook’s vessel. New findings regarding the pump well and bow further point to this ship in fact ...
The HMS Endeavour was a British Royal Navy vessel sailed by Captain Cook in 1778 during the American War of Independence Is a shipwreck off the Rhode Island coast Captain Cook’s long-lost vessel ...
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.