History of Newport County, Rhode IslandFrom the year 1638 to the year 1887, including the settlement of its towns, and their subsequent progress . er history, from 1815 to 1828, not ahouse was built upon the island, and for the ten succeedingyears the merchants watched auQ waited in vain for a revivalof commerce. From one of the first, the glorious port had be-come the most insignificant of shipping i^laces. Perhaps itwas owing to this very repose and tranquility that Newportowes her later prosperity. The relations between Newport andSouth Carolina were always intimate, and after the revolutio
History of Newport County, Rhode IslandFrom the year 1638 to the year 1887, including the settlement of its towns, and their subsequent progress . er history, from 1815 to 1828, not ahouse was built upon the island, and for the ten succeedingyears the merchants watched auQ waited in vain for a revivalof commerce. From one of the first, the glorious port had be-come the most insignificant of shipping i^laces. Perhaps itwas owing to this very repose and tranquility that Newportowes her later prosperity. The relations between Newport andSouth Carolina were always intimate, and after the revolution,the union of the states bringing their peojile into closer com-panion ship,travel greatlyincreased. Thecharm of thesummer cli-mate of thecity by I hesea soon at-tracted num-bers of thericher class,who y e a r 1 ysought relieffrom the op-pressive heatof the lowerlatitudes. Norwas this desireconfined to the gentlemen of South Carolina. New York, Philadelphia andBaltimore families followed their example, and northernersand southerners met in this Eden of America in peace andharmony. About 1825 the Brinley House on Catharine street was opened. HOUSE OF CHARLES W. SHIELDS, NEWPORT, R. I. HISTORY OF NEWPOKT COUNTY. 489 us a hotel, and by ISoO quite a number of boarding liouses regu-larl} received summer guests. The wave of real estate specu-lation, which followed the withdrawal of deposits from theBank of the United States and the consequent expansion of thecurrency, touched Newport in 1830, but no considerable pur-chase was madeuntil 1845,when CharlesHazard Ru^sell, a RhodrIsland gentliman of fortuneestablished inNew Y o r 1\ .with so lu (?friends,bougliithree hundii!acres of landlying southand east ofTouro street,and later asso-ciated with
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