Newporters have exchanged Valentine’s cards for years as evidenced by the many 19th and 20th century cards in the Newport Historical Society’s collection. One ...

In 1848, Seth Bateman purchased the old Governor John Collins Farm (1786-1790) at Castle Hill Avenue and Ocean Avenue, and developed the property into ...

A regular figure on Washington Square in the early 20th century was “Peanut Joe” who was often seen with his fruit cart and dog. ...

Whaling “is a wretched life [of] privations and hardship deprived of friends and society,” John Scott DeBlois (1816-1885) wrote in an 1844 letter to ...

The “Bushy Park” estate, long gone, was located on Memorial Boulevard/Bath Road, between Cliff Avenue and Annandale Road. It dated to 1852 when it ...

As we gather our M&Ms and Reese’s Pieces for Halloween trick-or-treaters, it is interesting to note that access to sweets was far more difficult ...