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Newport Rhode Island harbor 1
Winter scene of Newport RI harbor. This photograph is used as a geographic witness to the place, not as evidence of the historical date shown in the chapter.
- Visual description
- Winter scene of Newport RI harbor
- Nature
- original
- Medium
- Open-licence photograph
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
BEFORE MODERN SPORT
Newport
How working water, access and organised sailing shaped Newport.
Scroll to read the water through time
Newport is a seaside city on Aquidneck Island in Rhode Island, United States.
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1640
A working shore
Newport was the most important port in colonial Rhode Island, and a public school was established in 1640.
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ACCESS CHANGES
The route to the water
The Newport Bridge, the longest suspension bridge in New England, connects Newport to neighbouring Conanicut Island across the East Passage of the Narragansett.
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Newport sailing 2009b
Newport Rhode Island sailing 2010. This photograph is used as a geographic witness to the place, not as evidence of the historical date shown in the chapter.
- Visual description
- Newport Rhode Island sailing 2010
- Nature
- original
- Medium
- Open-licence photograph
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
1930
Sailing becomes organised
The America's Cup sailing races were held in Newport from 1930 to 1983.
THE LIVING MAP
The mapped place
Newport is recorded at 41.490° N, 71.330° W as a coastal open venue. A course drawn here is temporary: wind, current, shore and marks determine the water that sailors actually meet.
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Open ledger · AOD.US.NEWPORT-RI.V00 · ORIGINALClose ledger · AOD.US.NEWPORT-RI.V00
Ledger AOD.US.NEWPORT-RI.V00
Newport Rhode Island harbor 1
Winter scene of Newport RI harbor. This photograph is used as a geographic witness to the place, not as evidence of the historical date shown in the chapter.
- Visual description
- Winter scene of Newport RI harbor
- Nature
- original
- Medium
- Open-licence photograph
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
TODAY
Newport now
Newport was the site of the America's Cup sailing races from 1930 to 1983, and it remains the starting point of the biannual 635 nautical-mile Newport Bermuda Race.
THE LEDGER
Sources and credits
This exhibition is built from local, institutional and sporting records. The source ledger keeps the claims visible and leaves space for correction as further local evidence emerges.
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Artefacts in order of appearance
Newport Rhode Island harbor 1
AOD.US.NEWPORT-RI.V00 · original · Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
Newport sailing 2009b
AOD.US.NEWPORT-RI.V01 · original · Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
Editorial record
Full US Beta edition. Place evidence is adapted from the linked Newport, Rhode Island overview under CC BY-SA 4.0 and remains subject to named historical and local review. Cartography is generated from the PeakWave location catalogue.