Please join Stephen Luce on a tour of a seldom seen historic cemetery in Lawton Valley! This guided tour will visit the Town Asylum and Poor Farm Cemetery. Located on the rim of Lawton Valley and just south of the Raytheon complex, this cemetery is the final resting place for many of the most unfortunate […]
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Mar 14, 2024 – Christian McBurney spoke on his new book, Machine Guns in Narragansett Bay: The Coast Guard’s War on Rumrunners (History Press, 2023) During World War I and World War II, Rhode Island was dotted with coastal forts filled with large caliber guns. Yet they were never fired in anger. By contrast, from
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Portsmouth Town Historian Jim Garman will present a lecture on the Mount Hope Bridge and the first Sakonnet River Bridge. The Mount Hope Bridge connects Portsmouth to Bristol and opened in 1929. The first Sakonnet River Bridge was constructed in 1956. This bridge closed in 2012 after a new bridge was built. Learn more about
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Join us at the museum on April 17th for a talk on Survival of the Fittest: A Century of Golf at Montaup Country Club. The club’s historical committee will be presenting selections from the book that was created to commemorate the club’s centenary last year. Montaup Country Club sits on what was once the farm of
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Mar 7, 2024 – The RI Secretary of State participate din Portsmouth’s celebration of Founders’ Day with Showing of the Original 1638 Compact and 1776 Southwick Copy of Declaration of Independence The Portsmouth Historical Society hosted a celebration of the Town’s 1638 founding with a ceremony at the Town Hall on March 7. The
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Mar 1, 2024 – Craig Clark, Society President appeared on the local TV series Portsmouth This Week
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Feb 29, 2024 -Ten teams gathered at the Gulf Stream Bar & Grille for the 2024 PHS History Trivia Contest. It ended in a first place tie with the ‘The Northenders’ beating out ‘Patriots Posse’ in a sudden death playoff . Â The winning team was Lois Ryan, Bob Hamilton , Dave and Deb Duggan, Gerry
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Christian McBurney will be returning to the Portsmouth Historical Society on March 14th at 6:30 to talk about his new book Machine Guns in Narragansett Bay: The Coast Guard’s War on Rumrunners.
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This year’s Founders’ Day Celebration will commemorate the 386th anniversary of the signing of the Portsmouth Compact. The original Portsmouth Compact will be transported with a police escort from the Rhode Island State Archives in Providence to the Portsmouth Town Hall. The document will be on public display from 11 am to 1 pm. Also on display will
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Join us at The Gulf Stream Bar & Grille for Portsmouth Historical Society’s 6th Annual Trivia Contest on Thursday February 29, 2024 from 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM at the Gulf Stream Bar & Grille, 1 Lagoon Rd in Portsmouth. Joe Cassady, a Portsmouth High School history teacher will once again be our emcee for the evening. Joe’s
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