Storer Park (Newport, Rhode Island)

 park, wharf

1893 map shows the wharf here as Brigg's Wharf (Sarah Briggs)

The Origin of Storer Park - in part - "Miss Agnes Storer lived in the house north of the Elm Streetway, and she was tremendously interested in getting the children a playground. Also, before there was any organization in Newport for saving old houses, that was her other activity. The Hunter House was standing dilapidated and empty, and for sale. Miss Storer bought it about World War I, and repaired it. She gave it to St. Joseph's Church as a home for the nuns. They stayed there until it was found more convenient to move nearer the church. So once more the Hunter House stood empty. This time Miss Agnes persuaded Mr. George Henry Warren to buy the Hunter House from St. Joseph's Church , in the '30s, and from that beginning, the Preservation Society gradually developed.

In 1939 Miss Agnes Storer, Mrs. Hamilton Fish Webster, and Mrs Guthre Nicholson raised $5,000 and in December 1940 bought land fom the Steamship Company, which still owned it, though the Fall River Line had folded in 1937. This land ran from the Hunter House land on the north to the land opposite the south side of Bridge Street, .47 of an acre. "
(full story at link - www.stacyhouse.com/storerpark/storer_origin.htm )