The planet Venus was bright in the Western sky as it is now and Newport’s Christmas season in colonial times was cold and subdued. ...
More InfoThis month marks the 20th anniversary of the opening of the Museum of Newport History at the Brick Market. Governor Bruce Sundlun and other ...
More InfoThis month marks the second anniversary of the Newport Historical Society’s online database. As the only Newport institution to offer online collections access, the ...
More InfoA tabletop piano dating to 1783 was recently rediscovered in the Newport Historical Society’s furniture collection. According to the maker’s mark inscribed just above ...
More InfoCapt. Peleg Clarke (1734-1803) of Newport spent the better part of 1773 on the ship Fletcher sailing from Newport to Africa, then to Jamaica, ...
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