North Kingstown, Rhode Island

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Music in North Kingstown

Songs About North Kingstown

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"I met her in a Kingstown bar"

Artists From North Kingstown

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Rivers & Roads in Song near North Kingstown

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History of North Kingstown

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.

9.0 mi away

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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The City That Sets Its Rivers on Fire RoadyGoat

Providence is the rare city that literally sets its rivers on fire and calls it art. WaterFire, created by artist Barnaby Evans, fills the downtown rivers with dozens of floating bonfires on metal braziers; it grew from an eleven-fire New Year's piece in 1994 into the full multi-fire installation by 1996, drawing crowds along the water at dusk. Up the hill, Federal Hill is the city's Italian-American dining heart, and you enter beneath an arch on Atwells Avenue hung with La Pigna, a bronze pinecone (often mistaken for a pineapple) that's an old symbol of welcome. Downtown sits The Arcade, built in 1828 and widely called the oldest enclosed shopping mall in America, once nicknamed 'Butler's Folly.' Add Brown University, founded in 1764, and the Rhode Island School of Design, and you've got a small capital that punches far above its weight.

19.1 mi away

Touro Synagogue

1763

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

9.0 mi away

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.

7.7 mi away

Beavertail Lighthouse

1749

Located on the southern tip of Conanicut Island, Beavertail is the third-oldest lighthouse site in North America, first lit in 1749.

7.7 mi away

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.

8.3 mi away

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.

9.2 mi away

The Towers - Narragansett Pier

1883

Last remaining section of the Narragansett Pier Casino, designed by McKim, Mead & White, the stone arch spans Ocean Road at the entrance to Narragansett Beach.

8.2 mi away

Everything Near North Kingstown

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

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