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North Kingstown, Rhode Island: Locale: Newport County, Rhode Island, USA: Dates of operation: 1979 (Old Colony and Newport Scenic Railway) 1997 (Newport Dinner Train) 2014 (as Newport and Narragansett Bay Railroad)–present: Technical; Track gauge: 4 ft 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge: Other; Website: trainsri.com
The Newport Historic District is a historic district that covers 250 acres (100 ha) in the center of Newport in the U.S. state of Rhode Island.It was designated a National Historic Landmark (NHL) in 1968 due to its extensive and well-preserved assortment of intact colonial buildings dating from the early and mid-18th century.
Rhode Island responded, on June 28, 1775, by raising six new companies and assigning two companies to each Rhode Island regiment. In an effort to weld the separate New England armies into a single "Continental" Army, on August 5, 1775, General Washington ordered that a board be convened to determine the rank of the regiments at Boston.
Records of the colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, in New England, A.C. Greene and Brothers, 1865, OCLC 83697440, OL 20490388M Frederic Denison (1879), "Newport" , The past and the present: Narragansett, sea and shore , Providence: J. A. & R. A. Reid
Richard Smith (c. 1596–1666) was the first European settler in the Narragansett country (later Washington County, Rhode Island) in the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. He established a trading post on the western side of the Narragansett Bay at a place called Cocumscussoc which became the village of Wickford in modern-day ...
For Special Services, first published in 1982, was the second novel by John Gardner featuring Ian Fleming's secret agent, James Bond. [1] Carrying the Glidrose Publications copyright, it was first published in the United Kingdom by Jonathan Cape and in the United States by Coward, McCann & Geoghegan .
Caleb Carr (1616 – 17 December 1695) [1] was a governor of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, serving a very short term prior to his death.In 1635, at the age of 19, he sailed from England on the ship Elizabeth and Ann with his older brother Robert. [1]
The Roger Williams National Memorial is a landscaped urban park located on a common lot of the original settlement of Providence, Rhode Island, established by minister Roger Williams in 1636. The national memorial commemorates the life of Williams, who co-founded the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations and championed religious ...