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Sydney L. Wright Museum Jamestown Newport Archaeological Ancient and Colonial period Narragansett Indian artifacts, European artifacts from the 1600s, photos and maps [7] Tomaquag Indian Memorial Museum: Exeter: Washington Native American Museum of the Narragansett: Touro Synagogue: Newport Newport Historic site Colonial-era synagogue Varnum ...
The discovery was made by the British Museum during a 15-year project analysing 14 hoards of gold, silver and bronze torcs excavated at Snettisham, Norfolk, between 1948 and the 1990s.
Norfolk Museums Service (NMS), formerly Norfolk Museums and Archaeology Service (NMAS), [1] is a county-wide museums service that presides over ten museums in Norfolk, operated by Norfolk County Council and headed by the council's Director of Culture and Heritage, Steve Miller. [2]
Smith's Castle was built in 1678 to replace an earlier structure which the Narragansett Tribe destroyed during King Philip's War.The land on which the house was built was known as Cocumscussoc (or Cocumscossoc) and was near the original site of Roger Williams' trading post.
In 1967, with the help of Gov. John Chafee, Narragansett purchased The Towers, and two years later, in 1969, the structure was added to the National Register of Historic Places.
The Narragansett tribe was recognized by the federal government in 1983 and controls the Narragansett Indian Reservation, 1,800 acres (7.3 km 2) of trust lands in Charlestown, Rhode Island. [4] A small portion of the tribe resides on or near the reservation, according to the 2000 U.S. Census . [ 5 ]
Sainty, J. E., (1947) 'Mesolithic sites in Norfolk' in Norfolk Archaeology 28 pp 234–237; Wade-Martins, P., Ed., (1993) An Historical Atlas of Norfolk, Norfolk Museums and Archaeology Service; Wainwright, G. J., (1972) 'The Excavation of a Neolithic Settlement on Broome Heath, Ditchingham, Norfolk' PPS 38 pp 1–97
After a year, the museum moved to the Knight Farm on Scrabbletown Road in North Kingstown. In 1984, the museum moved to its current location on Canonchet Farm in Narragansett, which was previously owned by Col. William Sprague, a former governor of Rhode Island. The South County Museum contains artifacts dating from the 17th century to modern ...