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Remember, since Memorial Day honors those who died in service, flags should be flown at half-staff. Memorial Day 2024: Memorials and events around Newport County honor those who gave all Skip to ...
God's Little Acre. The Common Burial Ground was established in 1665 on land given to city of Newport by John Clarke. [2] It features what is probably the largest number of colonial era headstones in a single cemetery, including the largest number of colonial African American headstones in the United States.
John Everett Benson (October 8, 1939 – June 13, 2024), known as Fud, was an American calligrapher, stonecarver, typeface designer and sculptor who created inscriptions for monuments including the John F. Kennedy memorial at Arlington National Cemetery, the National Gallery of Art, the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial, and the Vietnam Memorial in Washington, DC.
The cemetery was founded in 1677 or possibly earlier. In the Newport land records, a deed was recorded on 28 Feb 1677 for a certain parcel of land, 30 feet square, sold by Nathaniel Dickens to Mordecai Campannall and Moses Packechoe for a burial-place for the Jews of Newport, and this purchase may have been an addition to a cemetery that was already in existence as of that date.
Cornelia Bryce Pinchot, native of Newport who became a conservationist, Progressive politician, women’s rights activist, and First Lady of Pennsylvania; Cynthia Taggart, poet; Charles C. Van Zandt, 34th Governor of Rhode Island [3]
The Newport Daily News is a six-day daily newspaper serving Newport County, Rhode Island. It publishes in the mornings on weekdays (Monday through Friday) and in the morning on Saturdays. The Daily News was the state's largest family-owned newspaper until it was purchased by Gatehouse Media in 2017.
Location of Newport County in Rhode Island. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Newport County, Rhode Island.. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Newport County, Rhode Island, United States.
The Texas-based company, which licensed its alarm-monitoring and security services to Brinks Home Security, announced that it would lay off 81 Rhode Island employees. Notice date: Jan. 4.