Between Hillside and Girard Aves., Newport, Rhode Island. County/parish: Newport.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places June 23, 1969. NRIS 69000003.
1 contributing site. 1 contributing structure.Also known as:
Miantonomi Memorial Park (MY-ann-toe-no-me) is a public park between Hillside Avenue and Girard Avenue in Newport, Rhode Island.
The Narragansett Indians used the area around the park for hundreds of years and the park (and the hill it is on) is named after Sachem, or Chief, Miantonomi. This hill was Miantonomi's seat of power until it was purchased by English colonists in 1637. The settlers used the hill as a lookout and in 1667 built a beacon on the hill. During the American Revolutionary War fortifications were built on the hill, fragments of which still survive. In 1921, the City of Newport received the property from the local Stokes family.
Miantonomi Memorial Park's 30 acres (120,000 m2) became part of the Aquidneck Land Trust through an easement in 2005.[1]
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41375058