Newport, Rhode Island

Everything Newport is known for

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Music in Newport

Songs About Newport

Renaissance (Main Title Theme)
Cristobal Tapia De Veer
60%
Renaissance (The White Lotus) [Tiësto Remix]
Tiësto
60%
Boats
Kenny Chesney
51%
"Newport is where John hung his hat"
summertime's close
zach bryan
10%

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Rivers & Roads in Song near Newport

Songs written about the waterways and highways that run near Newport.

Interstate 95 13 songs

History of Newport

The Gilded-Age Cliff Walk RoadyGoat

Newport is where America's richest families built 'summer cottages' the size of palaces. The grandest is The Breakers, a seventy-room Renaissance Revival mansion put up between 1893 and 1895 for Cornelius Vanderbilt II — marble shipped from Italy and Africa, mosaics and rare woods from around the globe, designed by Richard Morris Hunt. It is still Rhode Island's most-visited attraction. Behind The Breakers and its neighbors runs the Cliff Walk, a free public path roughly three and a half miles long pinned between the mansion lawns and the crashing Atlantic — a National Recreation Trail where ordinary walkers get the same ocean view the Vanderbilts paid a fortune for. Newport was a sailing town long before the millionaires arrived, and the harbor still fills with masts every summer. Old money, open sea.

The Borden House RoadyGoat

1892

On the morning of August 4, 1892, Andrew and Abby Borden were killed inside their home at 92 Second Street in Fall River, Massachusetts. The only person indicted for the murders was Andrew's thirty-two-year-old daughter Lizzie, who was acquitted after a nationally followed trial and who lived out the rest of her life in the same city under the same watchful eyes. The case was never officially solved. The house still stands on a modest working-class block, and today it operates as a bed-and-breakfast and museum; guests can stay in the same rooms the Bordens slept in on their last night. It is one of the few places in America where you can rent a bed in a murder scene and sleep through the whole thing, if you are able.

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Touro Synagogue

1763

Dedicated in 1763, Touro Synagogue is the oldest surviving synagogue building in the United States and a symbol of religious liberty.

The Breakers

1893

Seventy-room Italian Renaissance palazzo built for Cornelius Vanderbilt II, the grandest of Newport's Gilded Age mansions.

Cliff Walk

1880

Three-and-a-half-mile public walkway along Newport's eastern shore, offering views of Gilded Age mansions on one side and the Atlantic Ocean on the other.

International Tennis Hall of Fame

1880

The Newport Casino hosted the first U.S. National Championships in 1881, now houses the International Tennis Hall of Fame.

Naval Station Newport

1869

Home to the U.S. Naval War College since 1884, the oldest institution of its kind in the world, where naval strategy and international law are studied.

Fort Adams

1824

Largest coastal fortification in the United States, built between 1824 and 1857 to guard the entrance to Narragansett Bay and Newport Harbor.

Everything Near Newport

109 stories, landmarks & places within ~20 miles — the same local lore RoadyGoat plays as you drive through.

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