Rhode Island, Newport County, Newport
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This Property has been placed on the National Register of Historic Places by the United States Department of the Interior.
(Notable Places • Patriots & Patriotism) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
This Property has been placed on the National Register of Historic Places by the United States Department of the Interior.(Notable Places • Patriots & Patriotism) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
This Property has been placed on the National Register of Historic Places by the United States Department of the Interior.
This Property has been placed on the National Register of Historic Places by the United States Department of the Interior.
This Property has been placed on the National Register of Historic Places by the United States Department of the Interior.
The Bartholdi Fountain was created by Frederic Auguste Bartholdi (1834 - 1904), the French sculptor who also designed the Statue of Liberty. It was first exhibited in Philadelphia at the International Exposition of 1876. The fountain was purchased by the U.S. Congress in 1877 for six thousand dollars and placed on the Botanic Garden grounds, then situated in the corner of the Mall. Moved to its present location in 1932, the Bartholdi Fountain was restored in 1986.
This model of Fort Adams provides an overview of the Fort’s design, including the main structure and the outworks for land defense. The drawings of the Fort show details of its construction and reveal the complexity of its design along with the terminology in use at the time of its construction. The plans reveal the Fort’s multiple layers of defense, and its orientation to maximize firepower to guard the East Passage of Narragansett Bay.
Here on the banks of the Tensaw River -- named for the Tensa Indian tribe whose principal village was located at this place -- Major Robert Farmar developed a plantation c. 1772. Farmar was one of the most prominent and controversial Alabamians of the British period, being commander of the regiments at Mobile from 1763-1765. He resigned his commission in 1768 and was elected to every Commons House of Assembly for the District of West Florida from 1769 until his death in 1778. Artist-Naturalist, William Bartram, visited Farmar here in 1775, and recorded eloquently and well the plant life of the area. Farmar’s plantation encompassed what is now the town of Stockton.
On above date aroused Patriots resolved that every lawful means be used to procure relief from oppressions of the English Parliament and that the most effectual way to secure American Freedom would be to break off all commerce with Great Britain.
Birthplace of William Pitt Fessenden. Born Oct. 6, A.D. 1806. United States Senator from Maine for thirteen years. Secretary of the U.S. Treasury 1864-1865.
Born April 6, A.D. 1806. Editor, Banker, Poet, Legislator and Scholar. Governor of New Hampshire 1885-1887.
Born July 24, A.D. 1798. "If anyone attempts to haul down the American flag, shoot him on the spot."
The Connecticut River, starting at the International Boundary, flows 380 miles to the Atlantic Ocean. In its course the river falls 1640 feet. In 1928, the New England Power Association started a two-year project to build one of the largest hydro-electric developments in the country. The dam is located in the towns of Monroe, NH and Barnet, VT and is 275 miles above the rivers mouth. When dedicated on September 30, 1930 President Herbert Hoover pressed a button at the White House to start the first of four generating units.
March, 1856 – Traverse des Sioux and St. Peter organized a cemetery Assoc. purchasing 10 acres. Early Missionaries, pioneer, and Civil War Veterans are buried here.
This Landing Craft, a LSM (Landing Ship Medium)
represents more than 150 Landing Craft-LLC's LSM's
LSMR's, LST's - built by the Charleston Naval Shipyard
between 1942 and 1945. At the peak of the Landing Craft
construction period, from January-December 1944,
the shipyard launched 128 newly constructed LSM's -
an astounding average of one every three days.
During wartime, these LSM's, as part of our Afloat
Amphibious Forces - The "Gator Navy" - delivered men
and equipment ashore during numerous beach
landings, often in the face of enemy fire.
Organized 1774
(obverse)
