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  2. Newport Harbor Light - Wikipedia

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    The Newport Harbor Light, also known as the Goat Island Light or Green Light, built in 1842, is located on north end of Goat Island, which is part of the city of Newport, Rhode Island, United States, in Narragansett Bay. [2] [3] [4] The light was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.

  3. List of maritime museums in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Newport Beach: Newport Harbor Maritime Museum: Y California: Oxnard: Channel Islands (Ventura County) Maritime Museum: California: Port Hueneme: US Navy SeaBee Museum: California: Richmond: Rosie the Riveter National Historic Site: California: Samoa: Humboldt Bay Maritime Museum: California: San Diego: San Diego Maritime Museum: Y California ...

  4. McFadden Wharf - Wikipedia

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    The first ship to enter the bay was the 105-ton, flat-bottomed sternwheel steamer SS Vaquero with cargo of 15,000 shingles and 5,000 feet of lumber from San Diego. Samuel S. Dunnells built a small wharf called the Newport Landing. Newport Landing and Landing Warehouse was near the current Pacific Coast Highway and the Newport Bay Bridge. James ...

  5. Newport Historical Society tours are expanding to meet ... - AOL

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    The tours became even more popular during COVID, and the return to comparative normalcy has translated into an increase in tour interest.

  6. Newport Back Bay - Wikipedia

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    The Upper Newport Back Bay boasts one of the few remaining natural estuaries in Southern California. [7] Living in the waters of the Upper Newport Back Bay, are several diverse species of plankton and algae. [8] These plankton and algae act as a food source for the eighty or so species of fish that live in the estuary.

  7. Ida Lewis - Wikipedia

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    Ida Lewis was born in Newport, Rhode Island, the second oldest of four children of Captain Hosea Lewis of the Revenue-Marine.Her father was transferred to the Lighthouse Service and appointed keeper of Lime Rock Light on the small near-island Lime Rock in Newport in 1854, taking his family to live on the rock in 1857. [4]

  8. Cabrillo National Monument - Wikipedia

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    The site was designated as California Historical Landmark #56 in 1932. The area was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on October 15, 1966. The park offers a view of San Diego's harbor and skyline, as well as Coronado and Naval Air Station North Island.

  9. Easton's Point - Wikipedia

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    "The Point" from the Goat Island causeway bridge Battery Park in Newport Goat Island and Easton's Point with Long Wharf on the right before the marsh was filled in (1777 Newport map) Gravelly Point off of Long Wharf, was the site of the largest public mass execution in American history, when 26 pirates were executed. They were then buried on ...