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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This flag features a blue background with seven eight-pointed gold stars. This official town flag was adopted in by the Portsmouth Town Council in 1976. It was designed by Elizabeth Anthony Wilkey.
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Dec 6, 2023 Historical Society held its 2023 Annual Meeting and Holiday Gathering The Society held its annual meeting and holiday gathering that featured showing of recently-digitized color and black and white films of Glen Farm and the Newport County Fairgrounds from the 1920’s and 1930’s. Also, official Portsmouth flag were unveiled.
Join us at the Portsmouth Historical Society for our 2023 Annual Meeting on December 6th at 6 PM. Our featured presentation will showcase digitized 16mm films of Glen Farm and surrounding area. Come see color footage from the 1930s of Glen Manor, Mrs. Taylor’s gardens, the reflecting pool and the Sakonnet. A black and white
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RIPBS is filming a segment for their very successful series Treasures Inside the Museum at PHS. We can’t wait to see the final results sometime this spring.
Nov 18, 2023 – RI PBS to Feature PHS Museum Read More »
Many people may be unaware of the influences and contributions of Indigenous peoples, such as the Narragansett and the Pokanoket, in the early history of Portsmouth. There is a general feeling and misconception that once Aquidneck Island was transferred to the English, Indigenous peoples were no longer a part of Portsmouth history. This lecture shed
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Some future historians from the 2nd grade at Highland Charter School in Warren came to visit. The Goodwife (Schoolteacher) talked to them about attending a one-room schoolhouse and they got to ring the old schoolbell. Spending time in the Old Town Hall helped them learn about Portsmouth’s agricultural past and they enjoyed our collection in
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The Portsmouth Historical Society Museum hosted a remembrance ceremony of the tragic event. On Sunday, October 23, 1983, at about 6:20 a.m., a yellow Mercedes stake-bed truck crashed into the lobby of the barracks of the 1st Battalion 8th Marines before the driver detonated a suicide bomb. The bomb was the equivalent of about 12,000
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NY Times Best Selling Author to Lecture of the War Between the Colonists and Native Americans NY Times bestselling author Michael Tougias gave a presentation on the war between the Colonists and Native Americans in 1675-76 at the Portsmouth Historical Society on October 19th. Tougias is the author of the acclaimed Until I Have No
Many people may be unaware of the influences and contributions of Indigenous peoples, such as the Narragansett and the Pokanoket, in the early history of Portsmouth. There is a general feeling and misconception that once Aquidneck Island was transferred to the English, Indigenous peoples were no longer a part of Portsmouth history. This lecture will
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