Thursday March 21, 2024 at 6:30pm; doors open at 5:30pm for a cocktail reception $20 per person, $15 for Newport Historical Society members and active duty military Newport Historical Society […]
In 1824, the Marquis de Lafayette embarked on a tour of the United States, returning for a final time to the country he helped establish and whose democratic experiment he […]
Rhode Island Historical Cemetery Awareness and Preservation Weeks (Rhode Island Cemetery Weeks) will feature dozens of free programs in April and May. Rhode Islanders of all ages are invited to participate […]
Join the Major General Nathanael Greene Homestead and the Nathanael Greene Homestead Association in marking our nation's 250th anniversary! The two organizations will dedicate a memorial bench in honor of […]
The State House Restoration Committee and the RI Department of State will host an Open House on Rhode Island Independence Day, Saturday, May 4th!
In 1777, French army officer Michel Capitaine du Chesnoy arrived in Charleston, South Carolina, with the marquis de Lafayette. During the American Revolution, Capitaine du Chesnoy served with Lafayette as […]
The Rhode Island Society of the Sons of the American Revolution will be dedicating a bench to Major General Nathanael Greene Homestead. This was a tremendous fundraising effort to honor […]
The Battle of Rhode Island Association Lecture Series sponsored by the Rhode Island Senate Legislature and the General Society of Colonial Wars continue as we partner with the Portsmouth Historical […]
The Battle of Rhode Island Association Lecture Series sponsored by the Rhode Island Senate Legislature and the General Society of Colonial Wars continue as we partner with the Portsmouth Historical Society and the Varnum House Museum to bring a series of lectures from historian Dr. Robert A. Selig in Portsmouth and East Greenwich. On Sunday April […]
Thomas Fairfax, 6th Lord Fairfax of Cameron, played an influential role throughout the life of George Washington. Having been introduced to Washington shortly after settling in Belvoir, Va., in 1747, Fairfax became Washington’s first employer when he hired the sixteen-year-old Virginian to survey his lands west of the Blue Ridge Mountains. Although a professed Loyalist […]
