Newport, Rhode Island

From: Deseret News (Salt Lake City) | Date: November 6, 2005| Author: | Copyright information

NEWPORT, R.I. -- This city has been a "getaway" for more than 350 years.

This spit of land stretching into Narragansett Bay on one side and Rhode Island Sound on the other first attracted settlers in the mid- 1600s, when a group of dissidents wanted to escape religious oppression of areas surrounding Boston. They came, they liked and they established a settlement in 1639.

The location proved ideal for commerce and trade (not to mention pirates and privateering), and the town flourished, growing by the 1700s into one of America's largest ports.

The world of commerce eventually passed on by. ...

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