Ida Lewis.....THE Bravest Woman.!

..."the Bravest Woman in America" ..............HER BURIAL SITE.....
                                 ...at the Common Cemetery in Newport RI....

Her Birthplace on Spring Street, Newport, RI...........Our Neighbor...!

**Ida Lewis Light.... In 1853, Congress authorized the construction of a lighthouse on Lime Rock in Newport Harbor. Lime Rock is a limestone ledge

 about 220 yds (200 m) from the shore. The original

lighthouse was a short stone tower with a 6th order

Fresnel lens and an oil-burning lantern. The light was commissioned in 1854. In the beginning, the lighthouse

keeper rowed from the shore daily to tend the light. In case of foul weather, the lighthouse keeper could stay

in a small wooden shanty....[Wickipedia]

Ida Lewis Lighthouse showing the original lighthouse and lightkeeper's house and the automated, skeleton tower.

Location: Newport Harbor
Year first constructed: 1854

Year first lit: 1854
Automated: 1927

Deactivated: 1927 (Original light)
1963 (Automated light)

Construction: Brick tower attached to lightkeeper's house
Tower shape: Square

Markings/Pattern: White with black lantern
Height: 13 ft (4 m)

Focal Height: 30 ft (9 m)
Original lens: 6th order Fresnel

ARLHS number: USA-398
Ida Lewis Rock Lighthouse

U.S. National Register of Historic Places

SOME...Fun........!

STROLL.. the Brick Market Place

The USS Bennington, .. Newport !!

At 0811, 26 May 1954, while cruising off Narragansett Bay, the fluid in the port catapult exploded, setting off a series of secondary explosions which killed 103 crewmen and injured 201 others.

Bennington proceeded under her own power to Quonset Point, R.I.

On 26 May 2004 at Fort Adams State Park in Newport, Rhode Island, many dedicated a Memorial to those fallen sailors.
It was covered by the local media and  approximately 900 former Bennington crewmembers, Air Group and Marine Detachment personnel came to remember the day!

an incredible site and view by the shoreline

SPRING STREET..The start of it all !

Where it all began........The site of the original spring.....Allowing the folks to settle........

Mr. Johnston.......ENTREPRENEUR

FOR 40 YEARS........from 1875

Mr. John Dixon Johnston , was quite the builder in Newport.........
He designed and built over 200 houses in and around the city........
He helped draft the city's first building codes.......
He was an inventor..........
An employer of many , many people.........
A lumber mill owner.....
and on and on......


AND OF COURSE , he built our own...
..                                          ..# 28 Fair Street...in the 1880's

PLUNGE...one Polar Bear...two Polar Bear...three

DO WE LOVE OUR POLAR BEAR PLUNGERS HERE IN NEWPORT....YOU BETCHYA..Did You MISS "the Plunge"...?????........

WELL.......Here's the RECAP !

SEE YA IN 2011!!!!!!!!