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Arnold Burying Ground (also known as the Governor Arnold Burying Ground) is a historic cemetery on Pelham Street just east of Spring Street in Newport, Rhode Island. It is the burial place of Benedict Arnold , Rhode Island's first governor under the Royal Charter of 1663 .
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Newport is a seaside city on Aquidneck Island in Rhode Island, United States.It is located in Narragansett Bay, approximately 33 miles (53 km) southeast of Providence, 20 miles (32 km) south of Fall River, Massachusetts, 74 miles (119 km) south of Boston, and 180 miles (290 km) northeast of New York City.
Jewish Rhode Island, published monthly and owned by the Jewish Alliance of Greater Rhode Island. Based in Providence, but covering the entire state. Mercury, published monthly and owned by Gatehouse Media. An alternative weekly-style paper covering Rhode Island arts, entertainment and food in Newport and Middletown.
George T. Downing (December 30, 1819 – July 21, 1903) was an abolitionist and activist for African-American civil rights while building a successful career as a restaurateur in New York City; Newport, Rhode Island; and Washington, D.C.
Kingscote is a Gothic Revival mansion and house museum at Bowery Street and Bellevue Avenue in Newport, Rhode Island, designed by Richard Upjohn and built in 1839. As one of the first summer "cottages" constructed in Newport, it is now a National Historic Landmark. It was remodeled and extended by George Champlin Mason and later by Stanford White.
On July 15, 1876, she was born as Margaret Louise Post in Newport, Rhode Island, to William Post (1848–1900) and Rosalie DeWolf Anthony (1844–1929), a descendant of the early settlers of Rhode Island. [1] Her maternal aunt, Louise Vanderbilt (née Anthony; 1844–1926), was married to Frederick Vanderbilt, a grandson of Cornelius Vanderbilt ...
Schermerhorn's Newport estate, today known as Chepstow, June 2017. Edmund continued to live in the free-standing brick and brownstone mansion at 6 Great Jones Street after his parents' deaths along with his brother William and his wife, Ann, a society leader who threw a lavish costume ball at the home in 1854. [16]