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Given the current health climate, the Newport Historical Society & Museum of Newport History are closed to in-person researchers and visitors. However, our staff are still staying active behind-the-scenes to fulfill research requests and ensure continued access to Newport’s endlessly interesting history. As a useful starting point for any distance-research, here is a quick guide […]

One of the early school masters in Newport was Capt. William Engs (1720-1800), who moved from Boston to Newport as a master mariner with experience as a book keeper and clerk. In 1772 he established a school, and took on boarders, to study navigation, astronomy, astrology, geography, geometry, double entry accounting and penmanship. The school […]

  By: Leah Crowley, WPRI 12 NEWPORT, R.I. (WPRI) — The Newport Historical Society launched a new online resource on Thursday called “Voices of the NHS Archives.” The project is bringing the society’s archives into the digital age. The papers being preserved at the Touro Street facility date back hundreds of years. Staff had the idea […]

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This special tour is offered Saturday October 7, 1pm-2:30 pm, 3:30pm-5pm and 6pm-7:30pm. Island Cemetery is the final resting place of important and intriguing people, many from Newport’s Gilded Age. During this guided walking tour across the cemetery’s scenic grounds, meet Maude Wetmore and hear about her family and her home, Château Sur Mer. Some […]

This is a guest blog post by Amelia Yeager (she/her), a first year Master’s student in public history at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, where she studies free and unfree labor in early America and the legacies of rural labor and craft in cultural history. Amelia is a 2023 Buchanan Burnham Fellow. Among notices for […]