Miantonomi Memorial Park (Newport, Rhode Island)

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Miantonomi Memorial Park is an historic park between Hillside Avenue and Girard Avenue in Newport, Rhode Island.

The Narragansett Indians used the area around the park for hundreds of years and the park (and the hill it is on) is named after Sachem, or Chief, Miantonomi. European settlers used the hill as a lookout and in 1667 built a beacon atop the Hill and later fortifications during the American Revolution. In 1921 the City of Newport received the property from the local Stokes family. The Park Commission built a stone tower in 1929 as a World War I memorial. Miantonomi Memorial Park's 30 acres (120,000 m2) became part of the Aquidneck Land Trust through an easment in 2005.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miantonomi_Memorial_Park
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Coordinates:   41°30'38"N   71°18'37"W
This article was last modified 14 years ago