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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
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
George Gardiner (1608/1615 - c. 1677), sometimes spelled Gardner, was an early inhabitant of Newport in the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, and one of the original settlers of Aquidneck Island.
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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 ...
Rhode Island was the only New England colony without an established church. [28] Rhode Island had only four churches with regular services in 1650, out of the 109 places of worship with regular services in the New England Colonies (including those without resident clergy), [28] while there was a small Jewish enclave in Newport by 1658. [29]
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.
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