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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1NYK_the-keepers-house_Jamestown-RI.html
Although most lighthouse keepers were married, at many small lighthouses they lived a solitary life while their families remained on the mainland. Beavertail, being on Conanicut Island, allowed the keepers and their family to live at the site.
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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1NYA_foundation-of-the-original-beavertail-lighthouse_Jamestown-RI.html
Foundation of the Original
Beavertail Lighthouse
Erected 1749
Third Lighthouse To
Be Established On
The Atlantic Coast
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1NXY_fog-signal-building_Jamestown-RI.html
In 1829, Congress appropriated $1,250 for a 600-pound fog bell for Beavertail. Prior to that time the keeper fired a cannon on foggy nights. That same year a fog bell house was built adjacent to the tower.
Beavertail has probably seen more type…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1NXW_whale-rock-lighthouse_Jamestown-RI.html
What resembles a submarine on the surface just over a mile southwest of this point is all that remains of the Whale Rock Lighthouse.
Whale Rock is a flat ledge about a half acre in size, yet it claimed at least eight ships and six lives before …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1NXM_the-assistant-keepers-house_Jamestown-RI.html
The first assistant keeper at Beavertail Light was hired about 1859. It appears that the early assistant keepers shared part of the keeper's quarters or lived in one of the outbuildings on site.
In 1898, the U.S. Lighthouse Board added this res…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1NXH_the-west-passage-to-narragansett-bay_Jamestown-RI.html
You are looking at the West Passage, one of two entrances to Narragansett Bay, New England's largest estuary. There are over 30 islands in the bay. There is very little commercial shipping in the West Passage since it is much shallower than the Ea…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1NL5_general-joseph-stanton-monument_Charlestown-RI.html
Text on the Front (North) Side of the Monument:
Erected by the
State of Rhode Island
In Memory of
General Joseph Stanton Jr.
First U.S. Senator from Rhode Island
Under the Constitution from
1790 to 1793
U.S. Representative from
1801 to …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1KNT_nathanael-greene_Coventry-RI.html
Of thegenerals of the AmericanRevolution,second only to Washington.Built this house in 1770and lived in it as a private.He joined the armyat Cambridge in 1775.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1KKA_liberty-tree-memorial_Coventry-RI.html
This American Liberty Elm was named after "The Liberty Tree: Our Country's First Symbol of Freedom." On the morning of August 14, 1765 Boston awakened to discover two effigies of British official hanging from the branches of a towering e…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1KK8_the-nathanael-greene-homestead-cemetery_Coventry-RI.html
Cemetery HistoryThe first Greene family interment occurred in 1786 with the death of Miss Margaret Greene, daughter of Jacob (General Greene's brother) and Margaret Greene. There are seventeen identified interments in the cemetery and four fieldst…