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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. — Kenneth C. Zirkel

Historic Site

Vernon House, Newport, RI

Rhode Island

46 Clarke St Newport, RI 02840

Newport, RI

William Vernon House

Kenneth C. Zirkel

This house is named after William Vernon, who was the President of the Eastern Navy Board through the Revolutionary War and was also the founder and second president of the Redwood Library. Rochambeau used the house as a headquarters starting in July 1780. Washington and Lafayette also visited Rochambeau while he stayed at the house.

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Explore more of The Liberty Trail by visiting these nearby attractions.

Historic Site

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

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Vernon House, Newport, RI

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Museum

Artillery Company of Newport Museum

Newport, RI 02840

0.07388930789575

Artillery Company of Newport Museum

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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

0.12235915153825

Touro Synagogue, Newport, RI

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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

0.32303470222443

White Horse Tavern, Newport, RI

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Redwood Library, Newport, RI

Newport, RI 02840

0.45743209672349

Redwood Library, 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

0.76348853075466

Equality Park, Newport, RI

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

Hunter House, Newport, RI

Newport, RI 02840

0.77508548925438

Hunter House, Newport, RI

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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

2.1929259673122

Fort Adams, Newport, 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

2.3595018135039

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

2.3595018135039

Green End Fort, Middletown, 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

2.4045282334766

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

2.4777688659077

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

2.4777688659077

Rose Island Lighthouse & Fort Hamiton

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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

2.6143634172695

Miantonomi Hill

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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

6.5166241719234

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

7.4294758701864

Prescott's Headquarters, Middletown, RI

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Museum

Gilbert Stuart Birthplace

Saunderstown, RI 02874

11.476980278287

Gilbert Stuart Birthplace

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Tombstones in the Friends Meeting House Cemetery, Portsmouth, RI1

Friends Meeting House, Portsmouth, RI

Portsmouth, RI 02871

12.376968827505

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

13.392091434151

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

15.069577054666

Butts Hill Fort

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General Lafayette Marker, Tiverton, Rhode

Tiverton, RI 02878

17.549557048381

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

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Fort/Outpost

Fort Barton in Tiverton, Rhode Island

02878

17.555441811889

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Marker

General Lafayette Marker, Bristol, Rhode

Bristol, RI 02809

20.680399250174

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

22.350524673587

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

22.419201888724

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

22.481890122235

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

22.583832469008

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

29.860761153957

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

31.234041005673

Gaspee Monument