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Narragansett is a town in Washington County, Rhode Island, United States.The population was 14,532 at the 2020 census. [3] However, during the summer months the town's population more than doubles to near 34,000. [4]
The name of Rose Island is attributed to the island's rose shape at low tide. The bay's tides are semi-diurnal, meaning that the region experiences two high and low tides daily. The tides range in height from 3.6 feet (1.1 m) at the bay's mouth and 4.6 feet (1.4 m) at its head.
Narragansett Park, an American race track, Pawtucket, Rhode Island; Narragansett Pier, a village within the town of Narragansett, Rhode Island; Narragansett Pond, a lake in Plymouth County, Massachusetts; Narragansett Times, a newspaper in Narragansett and South Kingstown, Rhode Island; Narragansett Trail, a public footpath in Connecticut and ...
Here, just off the shore, rougher ocean waters directly to the south converged with the calmer waters of Long Island Sound to the west. After the turn, the slender shoreline continued north ...
Indian Place Names of New England, Museum of the American Indian Heye Foundation; O'Brien, Frank Waabu (2010). Understanding Indian Place Names in Southern New England. Colorado: Bauu Press. Trumbull, James H. (1881). Indian Names of Places, etc., in and on the Borders of Connecticut: With Interpretations of Some of Them.
Rose Island with the Claiborne Pell Newport Bridge visible in the background 41°29′46.91″N 71°20′28.1″W / 41.4963639°N 71.341139°W / 41.4963639; -71.341139 Rose Island is an 18.5- acre (7.5 ha ) island in Narragansett Bay off Newport, Rhode Island , United States
Agawam: (Nipmuck or Pennacook) "low land" (with water) or "place to unload canoes" (possible portage spot) Annisquam (and river) Assinippi: (Wampanoag) "rocks in water" Assonet River (also Cedar Swamp and village): (Narragansett) "at the rock" – the rock in question being Dighton Rock; Cataumet: (Wampanoag) "at the ocean" or "landing place"
The Greene Inn (also known as Green Inn or Greene's Inn) was a historic summer resort hotel at 175 Ocean Road in Narragansett, Rhode Island. The shingle style inn was built in 1887 to a design by William Gibbons Preston and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1976. [ 1 ]