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The Common Burying Ground and Island Cemetery are a pair of separate cemeteries on Farewell and Warner Street in Newport, Rhode Island. Together they contain over 5,000 graves, including a colonial -era slave cemetery and Jewish graves. The pair of cemeteries was added to the National Register of Historic Places as a single listing in 1974.
Funerary art in Puritan New England encompasses graveyard headstones carved between c. 1640 and the late 18th century by the Puritans, founders of the first American colonies, and their descendants. Early New England Puritan funerary art conveys a practical attitude towards 17th-century mortality; death was an ever-present reality of life, [1 ...
There are 434 properties and districts listed on the National Register in the county, including 15 National Historic Landmarks. The cities of Pawtucket, Woonsocket, and Providence include 57, 43, and 169 of these properties and districts — including 1 and 12 National Historic Landmarks — respectively; they are listed separately.
December 12, 1978. ( #78000061) Crosses the Pawtuxet River at Hill St. 41°43′49″N 71°32′49″W. / 41.730278°N 71.546944°W / 41.730278; -71.546944 ( Arkwright Bridge) Cranston. Extends into Kent County. 2. Edgewood Historic District-Anstis Greene Estate Plats.
73000050 [1] Added to NRHP. April 24, 1973. Pawtuxet Village (PAH-tucks-it[2]) is a section of the New England cities of Warwick and Cranston, Rhode Island, United States. It is located at the point where the Pawtuxet River flows into the Providence River and Narragansett Bay.
Included in the list are all properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in the city of Woonsocket, Rhode Island, United States. Woonsocket is home to 43 of the more than 400 properties and districts listed in Providence County. Properties and districts located in the county's other municipalities are listed separately.
The Hope Village Historic District is a historic rural mill settlement within Hope Village in Scituate, Rhode Island. Hope Village is located on a bend in the North Pawtuxet River in the southeastern corner of Scituate. Industrial activity has occurred in Hope Village since the mid-eighteenth century. Surviving industrial and residential ...
Coordinates: 41°36′7.54″N 71°22′3.73″W. Hope Island. Hope Island is a 91-acre (0.368 km 2) island located in Narragansett Bay in the State of Rhode Island. It is part of the Narragansett Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, along with nearby Prudence Island and Patience Island, and home to colonial wading birds during their ...