The Irish Connection to Fort Adams
Problem . . . Insufficient workforce to build a Fortress.
The solution would come from Ireland. Five hundred families came to not only escape famine and economic hardship, but here they obtained the freedoms they so longed for in their homeland.
Fort Adams is a main reason for Newport’s very substantial Irish population today.
Marker can be reached from Fort Adams Drive, on the left when traveling north.
Courtesy hmdb.org
