Newport's Rose Island Lighthouse, in the middle of Narragansett Bay's West Passage between Newport and Jamestown, has served ...

the building of Beavertail Lighthouse dates back to 1712, when documents from a Newport Town Meeting record the first official request for a permanent navigational aid for merchants traveling to ...

Shortly after his arrival he had a stroke, so Ida and her mother assumed all the lighthouse responsibilities. She also had to row her brother and sister to school and back each day in Newport ...