Occupying the northern half of Aquidneck Island, Portsmouth is a town in Newport County, Rhode Island. - AsNotedIn
Occupying the northern half of Aquidneck Island, Portsmouth is a town in Newport County, Rhode Island. - AsNotedIn
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Battle of Rhode Island Site |
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W Main Rd (RI 21) | Lehigh Hill and both sides of RI 21 btw Medley and Dexter Sts | ||
Borden Farm |
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2951 and 2967 | E Main Rd | ||
Farnham Farm |
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113 | Mount Pleasant Ave | ||
Greenvale Farm |
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582 | Wapping Rd | ||
Hog Island Shoal Lighthouse |
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S of Hog Island, E passage, Narrangansett Bay | |||
Lawton-Almy-Hall Farm |
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559 | Union St | ||
Mount Hope Bridge |
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RI 114 over Narragansett Bay | |||
Oak Glen |
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745 | Union St | ||
Pine Hill Archeological Site, RI-655 |
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Address Restricted | |||
Portsmouth Friends Meetinghouse Parsonage and Cemetery |
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11 | Middle Rd and 2232 E Main Rd | ||
Prudence Island Lighthouse |
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E end of Sandy Pt. on Prudence Island | |||
Union Church |
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Union St and E Main Rd | |||
Wreck Sites of HMS Cerberus and HMS Lark |
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South Portsmouth, Waters of Narragansett Bay adjacent to Aquidneck Island |
Y/M/D | Person | Association | Description | Composition | Food | Event |
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1638/03/07 | A group of men meet at William Coddington's home and draft a compact for a Bodie Politick for a new settlement in Rhode Island. The group includes supporters of Anne Hutchinson who had been disfranchised, disarmed, excommunicated or banished. | |||||
1638/04/00 | Anne Hutchinson | Life | A pregnant Anne Hutchinson settles in Pocasset (soon to be renamed Portsmouth). In May, she delivers what her doctor John Clarke describes as a handful of transparent grapes. | |||
1638/05/20 | Richard Borden of Headcorn | Life | Born in Kent, England, Richard Borden came to New England with his wife, Joan Fowle, and two children around 1635. A Quaker, he left Boston for Portsmouth in 1638 and is admitted as a freeman and is allotted 5 acres. | |||
1680/00/00 | A home is built for Jacob Mott, son of Adam Mott who was one of the founders of Newport and Portsmouth. Located on a 100-acre tract on West Main, Portsmouth, on the south side of Cory's Lane, it was dismantled in 1973 and the wood decayed in storage. |
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Locale Type | Town |
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