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Mid-18th-century Georgian mansion museum with period furnishings. — Historical Marker Database

Historic Site

Hunter House, Newport, RI

Rhode Island

54 Washington Street Newport, RI 02840

Newport, RI

Hunter House Historical Museum in Newport, RI

Historical Marker Database

The Hunter House in Newport became a key Revolutionary War site when the French fleet under Admiral de Ternay used it as headquarters in 1780. Loyalist owner Colonel Joseph Wanton Jr. was accused of helping the British raise troops. Wanton was imprisoned by Patriot authorities and later forced to flee Newport. The French occupation of Newport was crucial to the eventual Yorktown campaign. The U.S. Department of the Interior declared it a Registered National Historic Landmark in 1968.

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Mid-18th-century Georgian mansion museum with period furnishings.

Hunter House, Newport, RI

Newport, RI 02840

0.00066454708576202

Hunter House, Newport, RI

Historic Site

A grassy yard filled with blooming yellow daffodils stretches across the foreground. Behind the flowers stands a large historic red building with white trim, multiple windows, and a small columned portico at the main entrance.

White Horse Tavern, Newport, RI

Newport, RI 02840

0.60981112827729

White Horse Tavern, Newport, RI

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Museum

Artillery Company of Newport Museum

Newport, RI 02840

0.71730158526924

Artillery Company of Newport Museum

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A light‑colored historic building with dark shutters and a central double‑door entrance sits on a corner lot, featuring three dormer windows on the roof and a short staircase leading up from the sidewalk.

Vernon House, Newport, RI

Newport, RI 02840

0.77508548925438

Vernon House, Newport, RI

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A beige building with brown trim and a columned portico stands behind a garden of bright flowers and neatly trimmed shrubs, bordered by a wrought‑iron fence and stone posts.

Touro Synagogue, Newport, RI

Newport, RI 02840

0.82500401202203

Touro Synagogue, Newport, RI

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A large boulder with a bronze plaque attached commemorating the burning of British ships.

Equality Park, Newport, RI

Newport, RI 02840

1.0002481308737

Equality Park, Newport, RI

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Redwood Library, Newport, RI

Newport, RI 02840

1.2311952601425

Redwood Library, Newport, RI

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Museum

A white colonial‑style building with a central staircase and double doors is framed by bright pink flowering trees, with an American flag near the entrance and a clear blue sky overhead.

Naval War College Museum, Newport, RI

Newport, RI 02841

1.7298949477797

Naval War College Museum, Newport, RI

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Fort/Outpost

A small rocky island with a cream-colored lighthouse and red roof surrounded by water.

Rose Island Lighthouse & Fort Hamiton

Newport, RI 02840

1.7426528335804

Rose Island Lighthouse & Fort Hamiton

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A small rocky island with a cream-colored lighthouse and red roof surrounded by water.

Rose Island Lighthouse & Fort Hamiton

Newport, RI 02840

1.7426528335804

Rose Island Lighthouse & Fort Hamiton

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Fort/Outpost

A stone fort wall with an arched entrance rises behind a grassy area where an informational sign, an old cannon, and a picnic table sit under a bright blue sky.

Fort Adams, Newport, RI

Newport, RI 02840

1.9870449874124

Fort Adams, Newport, RI

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A tall cylindrical stone tower with small windows and an arched entrance stands in a grassy clearing surrounded by trees showing early autumn color.

Miantonomi Hill

Newport, RI 02840

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Miantonomi Hill

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Fort/Outpost

A white stone marker labeled “Green End Fort” stands in a grassy landscape with bare trees and a bright blue sky.

Green End Fort, Middletown, RI

Middletown, RI 02842

2.5935235366446

Green End Fort, Middletown, RI

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Fort/Outpost

A white stone marker labeled “Green End Fort” stands in a grassy landscape with bare trees and a bright blue sky.

Green End Fort, Middletown, RI

Middletown, RI 02842

2.5935235366446

Green End Fort, Middletown, RI

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A tall flagpole flying the U.S. flag rises from an open grassy field, with a leafy green tree beside it and a line of trees along the horizon.

Conanicut Battery, Jamestown, RI

Jamestown, RI 02835

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Conanicut Battery, Jamestown, RI

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A rectangular historical marker to British General Prescott mounted on a red wooden wall.

Prescott's Headquarters, Middletown, RI

Middletown, RI 02842

7.1962544634915

Prescott's Headquarters, Middletown, RI

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Museum

Gilbert Stuart Birthplace

Saunderstown, RI 02874

10.738767067433

Gilbert Stuart Birthplace

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Tombstones in the Friends Meeting House Cemetery, Portsmouth, RI1

Friends Meeting House, Portsmouth, RI

Portsmouth, RI 02871

12.236939103507

Friends Meeting House, Portsmouth, RI

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Granite monument to 1st Rhode Island African American Regiment

1st Rhode Island Regiment

Portsmouth, RI 02871

13.208575421211

1st Rhode Island Regiment

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Fort/Outpost

A sunlit grassy field stretches toward a dense line of leafy trees, with long shadows cast across the ground.

Butts Hill Fort

Portsmouth, RI 02871

14.889889164673

Butts Hill Fort

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General Lafayette Marker, Tiverton, Rhode

Tiverton, RI 02878

17.495859034744

General Lafayette Marker, Tiverton, Rhode Island (RI-8)

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Fort/Outpost

Fort Barton in Tiverton, Rhode Island

02878

17.503369789478

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Marker

General Lafayette Marker, Bristol, Rhode

Bristol, RI 02809

20.337417258656

General Lafayette Marker, Bristol, Rhode Island (RI-3)

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A small white historic building with four columns and green shutters stands at a roadside; the sign above the door reads “Kentish Guards 1774.”

Kentish Guards Armory and Drill Field

East Greenwich, RI 02818

21.645119537972

Kentish Guards Armory and Drill Field

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A historic yellow civic building stands behind a flagpole flying the American flag.

Site of the First Colonial Navy

East Greenwich, RI 02818

21.715157391399

Site of the First Colonial Navy

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Colonial Home of General James Mitchell Varnum

James Mitchell Varnum House, East Greenwich

East Greenwich, RI 02818

21.776835798709

James Mitchell Varnum House, East Greenwich, RI

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Museum

A small fortress like brick building sits on a street corner, with arched wooden doors, battlements, and a nearby cannon.

Varnum Armory Museum

East Greenwich, RI 02818

21.881887913913

Varnum Armory Museum

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Colonial era 2-story manor house with 9 windows trimmed in white, with 2 chimneys and a red cannon in the front yard.

The Major General Nathanael Greene Homestead

Coventry, RI 02816

29.112416934658

The Major General Nathanael Greene Homestead

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Bronze marker on boulder to commemorate spot of the burning of the Gaspee

Gaspee Monument

Warwick, RI 02888

30.673648042789

Gaspee Monument