Newport, Washington

In the late 1880s, a small community began to develop at today’s Oldtown, Idaho, and became known as the “New Port” on the river. Over the next few years, settlers built homesteads and businesses in the area of present-day Newport, ...

Newport's Interstate Bridge

By the first decade of the twentieth century, Newport, Washington, had already become a bustling town that served as a regional rail hub and a gateway to commerce with Idaho via the Newport Ferry. Yet in an age rapidly dominated ...

National Historic Landmark-Newport Historic District

National Historic Landmark- Newport Historic District

From around 1740 until the Revolution, when it was occupied by the British, Newport flourished as a port and mercantile center and as Newport was Rhode Island's colonial capital.

The district's Georgian public buildings and ...

National Historic Landmark-Newport Casino

National Historic Landmark- Newport Casino

Built in 1880-1881, this Shingle-Style wood-frame complex of buildings is architecturally significant as an early design of the famed American architectural firm of McKim, Mead, and White.

It is also one of the first examples of ...

USS Newport News CA-148

At 0100 hours on October 1, 1972, the USS Newport News was firing a support mission off the coast of South Vietnam. An 8 inch projectile jammed in the center gun of Turret Two. The subsequent implosion and fire killed ...

Newport Harbor

Newport Harbor has been a center of commerce and industry since the days Narragansetts and Wampanoags, Native Americans, fished the waters of this bay. The first European explorer was Giovanni da Verranzzano, an Italian who sailed for the King of ...

Newport Historic District

has been designated a

Registered National

Historic Landmark

Under the provisions of the

Historic Sites Act of August 21, 1935

this site possesses exceptional value

in commemorating and illustrating

the history of the United States

U.S. Department of the Interior

National Park Service

1968

Marker is at the intersection of Thames ...

Newport News

1607 - 1957

This area was blessed with abundant springs famous to mariners for centuries after the great sea captain Christopher Newport visited here enroute to Jamestown in May 1607 in command of the first permanent English settlers of the New ...

Newport

Jersey City

Southeast of this spot, the

Half Moon anchored Sept. 11-

12, 1609. Here, the community

of Pavonia was established

Jan. 10, 1630. Washington

made this area the keystone

of the campaign, 1776. Ham-

ilton and his friends planned

the city Feb. 22, 1804.

Marker is at the intersection ...

Newport Hill

On this site, on October 8, 1871, geologist Raphael Pumpelly of Harvard University discovered one of the iron ore formations that created Gogebic County’s “boom era”. The Newport Mine, named for Pumpelly’s home in Rhode Island, began operations in 1884; ...