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newport, rhode island
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Newport is a seaside city on Aquidneck Island in Newport County, Rhode Island, United States. It is known as a New England
summer resort and is famous for its historic mansions. It is also the home of Salve Regina University and Naval Station Newport,
which houses the United States Naval War College, the Naval Undersea Warfare Center, and an important United States Navy training
center. It was a major 18th-century port city and also contains a high number of surviving buildings from the Colonial
era of the United States.
Newport was founded in 1639 on Aquidneck Island, which was called Rhode Island at the time. Its eight founders and first officers
were Nicholas Easton, William Coddington, John Clarke, John Coggeshall, William Brenton, Jeremy Clark, Thomas Hazard, and Henry Bull.
Many of these people had been part of the settlement at Portsmouth, along with Anne Hutchinson and her followers. They separated within
a year of that settlement, however, and Coddington and others began the settlement of Newport on the southern side of the island.
The Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations received its royal charter in 1663, and Benedict Arnold was elected as its first
governor at Newport. The Old Colony House served as a seat of Rhode Island's government upon its completion in 1741 at the head of Washington
Square, until the current Rhode Island State House in Providence was completed in 1904 and Providence became the state's sole capital city.
Newport became the most important port in colonial Rhode Island, and a public school was established in 1640.
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jetsetjohnny.ca features
John Simone`s
exotic-destination
travel
photography
Follow @johnsimonephoto_travel: Instagram
Simone spent 5 years traveling
to over 80 countries as Senior Photographer
and Photography Teacher on Princess Cruises
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