What to see in America . Birthplace of Gilbert Stuart, North Kingston the next century, when a wave of fashion swept into the oldplace. Its attractions were a salubrious climate without ex-tremes of heat or cold the year through, wide ocean prospects from its cliffs,extensive bath-ing beaches, anda delightful his-toric one of thecity parks is thefamous OldStone Mill,which was prob-ably a windmillerected by anearly governor about 1675, but which some claim was builtby the Norsemen hundreds of years before Columbus dis-covered America. Longfellow, in his well-known poem,The Skeleton
What to see in America . Birthplace of Gilbert Stuart, North Kingston the next century, when a wave of fashion swept into the oldplace. Its attractions were a salubrious climate without ex-tremes of heat or cold the year through, wide ocean prospects from its cliffs,extensive bath-ing beaches, anda delightful his-toric one of thecity parks is thefamous OldStone Mill,which was prob-ably a windmillerected by anearly governor about 1675, but which some claim was builtby the Norsemen hundreds of years before Columbus dis-covered America. Longfellow, in his well-known poem,The Skeleton in ^ ,^___,Armor, makes it thehome of a bold Norsesailor and his the lady diedthe husband buriedher under the stonetower and killed him-self by falling on hisspear. A little beyond thenorth end of Aquid-neck, on a mainland peninsula, is Mt. Hope, the dwelling-place of that mostfamous of New England Indians, King Philip. His villagewas at the foot of a rude crag where there was a good A Newport Mansion Rhode Island 61 and where it was sheltered from the rough northwest began his war against the whites in 1675, and many anexposed EngHsh village was wiped out, and hundreds ofsettlers lives were sacrificed. Late that year the greatestbattle of the war was fought in the southern part of RhodeIsland, not far from Kingston, where nearly 2000 Indians,including women and children, had taken refuge on a pali-saded piece of rising ground in the middle of a hideousswamp. There they were assailed by 1100 whites and 150friendly Indians in a snowstorm on December 19. Thestronghold was destroyed, many of the savages were killedor perished in the flames, and the rest were fugitives in thewinter woods. The next summer, while Philip with a fewfollowers was encamped near Mt. Hope, the whites surprisedand slew him, and the spot where he fell has been marked bya stone. Twelve miles off the coast is that popular resort, BlockIsland, about eight miles long and three wide.
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