Newport,
Rhode Island, a beautifully preserved walking-city with an architectural
tapestry dating back to the 17th century, pays homage to the past as
it celebrates the present.
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| WELCOME TO NEWPORT, RHODE ISLAND |
President George Washington sat in
the synagogue here. Philanthropist Judah Touro is buried here; and
the founders of America’s industrial society summered here. Founded in
1639 by a group of dissidents seeking religious and political freedom not
available in some northern colonies, Newport became a summer refuge for the
nation’s elite.
