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Single-Family Home - North Kingston. Oceanfront circa 1851 5br/3.5 bath seaside victorian charmer in heart of Saunderstown. Perfectly restored & renovated to highest standards. Gorgeous views, waterside deck, a/c, gourmet kitchen, state of the art sound system, stairs to water, mooring. A dream. 5 bedrooms, 3/1 baths, List Price $2,650,000 .

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The Information Data Exchange is an innovative program between cooperating members to provide complete listing information to the public. Listed By: Judith Chace - Residential Properties, Ltd. ML# 663485.

Single-Family Home - North Kingston. Waterfront with beach and deep water anchorage, spacious open floor plan, close to marina and village. Large corner lot. 3 bedrooms, 2/1 baths, List Price $1,850,000 .

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The Information Data Exchange is an innovative program between cooperating members to provide complete listing information to the public. Listed By: Peter Rhein - Marsha Welch Real Estate. ML# 657426.

Single-Family Home - North Kingston. CEDAR TREE POINT: 21,200 sf Spectacular PENINSULA with Ocean access. 2 existing cottages on site. Engineering & Site Plan Available. The finest waterfront location for a dream home in Wickford. Potential Dock! 2 bedrooms, 1/1 baths, List Price $1,395,000 .

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The Information Data Exchange is an innovative program between cooperating members to provide complete listing information to the public. Listed By: Paul Horman - Residential Properties, Ltd. ML# 636327.

Single-Family Home - North Kingston. Serene waterfront location on salt pond features 2 houses on over 2 acres in historic village of Wickford. New 3200 sq ft custom built home features craftmanship of the highest quality. Also, 1250 sq ft guest/rental cottage for year round living. 3 bedrooms, 2/1 baths, List Price $1,375,000 .

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The Information Data Exchange is an innovative program between cooperating members to provide complete listing information to the public. Listed By: Michael Richards - Listmyhouse.Com. ML# 654802.

Single-Family Home - North Kingston. Bright &sunny custom contemporary w/spacious open floor plan in serene Pojac Point. 1st floor master suite w/tiled bath, whirlpool, fireplace &deck. Generous eat-in-kitchen w/family room & fireplace. Inspired gardens & landscaping. 2-car garage. 3 bedrooms, 2/1 baths, List Price $1,195,000 .

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The Information Data Exchange is an innovative program between cooperating members to provide complete listing information to the public. Listed By: Rosemary Simpson - Lila Delman Real Estate. ML# 731481.

Single-Family Home - North Kingston. Stunning contemporary on 18+ private acres. Open floor plan w/cathedral ceilings, elegant details throughout, gourmet kitchen, 2 marble fireplaces, main floor master, fabulous separate indoor pool wing. Wooded nature trail leads to serene 3-acre pond. 3 bedrooms, 3/1 baths, List Price $1,195,000 .

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The Information Data Exchange is an innovative program between cooperating members to provide complete listing information to the public. Listed By: Jackie Perrett - Mansions & Manors. ML# 646308.

Single-Family Home - North Kingston. Fantastic 3200 sqft home on acre in Plum Beach. Sunny spaces w/relaxed coastal feeling 4 BR/3 1/2 Baths, fantastic great room/library, cozy living room w/stone fp, inviting sunrm, tennis court. Walk to Beach Club. Mooring included. Motivated Seller! 4 bedrooms, 3/1 baths, List Price $1,140,000 .

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The Information Data Exchange is an innovative program between cooperating members to provide complete listing information to the public. Listed By: Judith Chace - Residential Properties, Ltd. ML# 661815.

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Quidnessett Country Club

Although the inception of the Quidnessett Country Club is officially noted as January 24, 1960, its history is decidedly substantiated by a chronicle of intriguing events. The territory that makes up the Quidnessett property today was once part of the land of the Narragansett Indian Tribe. The Native Americans of this tribe lived, hunted and farmed this area for many years before the British settlers colonized America. The land known as Quidnessett was once called Aquitawaset or Cocumcussoc. The word Quidnessett is believed to be either "at the small island" or as interpreted by Thomas William Bicknell in The History of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, it may have meant "park".

When Roger Williams arrived in Narragansett Bay with 1,500 settlers, there were already approximately 75,000 Native Americans living in this area. They tried to live in harmony, but conflict was inevitable between the settlers and the natives.

As time passed, conflicts were settled and life together was moving ahead. On June 11, 1659, Coquinquant, the tribe sachem, presented a deed of the Quidnessett country to Major Humphry Atherton of Plymouth. Major Atherton was allowed to purchase this land because he was employed as Superintendent of the praying Indians and instructed them in "civil conversation". The purchase was deemed a fraudulent "land grab" under Rhode Island law. On July 8, 1663, a new royal charter was created - "The Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations". The war in 1675 between the colonies and King Phillip drove colonists out of the area. However, as the war ended, colonists moved back and farms flourished. Wealthy merchants quickly realized the land's potential for beautiful views and nice landscapes and began to transform the Quidnessett area into country estates.

From the beginning, the Narragansett Indians had known the beauty of Quidnessett in summer. They had, for many years, established villages for summer use at the coves along the water's edge where the climate was gentle from May through October. The warm days were cooled by gentle breezes and the cool days warmed by the sun shining on the clear blue water of the bay.

These conditions attracted affluent businessmen of the early 19th century. The property at this time belonged to the Wightman family and had been farmed since the time of Roger Williams. This properly was singled out as exceptional for development into residential property. The old house that had stood on the property was transformed into a grand manor in Victorian style.

The property soon became the summer residence of wealthy textile owner Crawford Allen. The adjacent to the Quidnessett property that is now Scallabrini Villa was originally a gift from Mr. Allen to his daughter Anne and her husband John Carter Brown. The estate was completed in 1872. In 1907 Mrs. Brown donated the building to Rhode Island Hospital.

The Allens sold the Quidnessett property to Walter Hanley a successful local brewer. In June of 1925 the property was once again sold, this time to C. Preston Knight. The Knight family owned many textile mills and made the trademark "fruit of the loom" a household name, still in use today.

On June 2, 1959, Knights farm became the King Phillip Country Club, but on December 31st of the same year, the name was changed to Quidnessett Country Club.

University of Rhode Island

The University was chartered as the state's agricultural school in 1888. The Oliver Watson farm was purchased as a site for the school, and the old farmhouse, now restored, still stands on the campus.

The school became the Rhode Island College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts in 1892, and the first class of 17 members was graduated two years later.

The Morrill Act of 1862 provided for the sale of public lands. Income from these sales was to be used to create at least one college in each state with the principal purpose of teaching agriculture and mechanic arts.

Chi Omega - University of Rhode Island

From this grant of land comes the term "land grant," which applied to the national system of state colleges.

The University's Sailing Boats

In a later adaptation of the concept, federal funds given to colleges for marine research and extension are called "sea grants."

In 1909 the name of the college was changed to Rhode Island State College, and the program of study was revised and expanded. In 1951 the college became the University of Rhode Island by an act of the General Assembly.

The Board of Governors for Higher Education appointed by the governor became the governing body of the University in 1981.

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Wickford Arts Festival

In the summer of 1961, a small group of Wickford, Rhode Island area artists put together a small sidewalk show on Franklin Street in Wickford. Buoyed by its success, they decided to form an organization later that year -- the Wickford Art Association -- to make it an annual event.

August - Carol Collette

The first Wickford Arts Festival was held in 1962, when 50 artists exhibited a total of about 1500 paintings. That first year, an estimated 7,500 - 10,000 visited the Festival.

Solstice - Edward Gordon

Now in its 38 year, the Wickford Art Festival has grown in size, prominence and prestige. Artists from around the world compete for the few coveted spaces that become available each year, though a percentage of the space is guaranteed to local artists who are members of the Wickford Art Association. Attendance is now close to 100,000 annually, and the works of over 250 artists are exhibited.

With the additional attraction of being located in an historic seaside village, the Festival has been ranked the number one fine arts festival in New England.

Trustom Pond National Wildlife Refuge

"Picturesque, peaceful, yet thriving with wildlife."

That's how many of the more than 50,000 annual visitors describe the Trustom Pond National Wildlife Refuge.

Spanning 800 acres on the Southern Coast of Rhode Island, the refuge protects the state's only undeveloped salt pond. From upland forests to a 1.5-mile barrier beach,the varied habitats in Trustom Pond support more than 300 bird, 40 mammal,and 20 reptile and amphibian species.

A stronghold for the threatened piping plover, the refuge is home to several other rare species including osprey, least terns, and the state's only population of Fowler's toad.

This refuge, along with the four other National Wildlife Refuges in the state, are administered by the Rhode Island National Wildlife Refuge Complex, headquartered in Charlestown, R.I.

Casey Farm - Richard Benjamin

This mid 18th-century homestead overlooking Narragansett Bay was the center of a plantation that produced food for local and foreign markets. Located near Newport, Casey Farm had access to material goods imported from England, enabling its early owners to live in a fashionable manner.

Prosperity ended with the burning of Newport during the Revolution, and the farm settled into a pattern of absentee ownership.

Starting in the mid 19th century, the Casey family began to improve the farm. They leased the property to tenant farmers but retained two rooms in the house for their own occasional summer use, as they had come to regard the farm as their ancestral home.

Today, resident farm managers raise organically grown vegetables, herbs, and flowers for subscribing households in a Community Supported Agriculture program. The guided tour includes the farmyard and cemetery, where six generations of Caseys are buried.

Smith's Castle

Around 1637, Richard Smith, an original settler of Taunton in Plymouth Colony, established a trading post at Cocumscussoc and built an English house. It is thought to have been a grand house that was, possibly, fortified. This is how it got the name Smith's Castle. Smith increased his holdings, and Cocumscussoc soon became a center of social, political, and religious activities. Smith died in 1666 leaving Cocumscussoc to his son, Richard Smith, Jr.

Smith's Castle gardens - Richard Benjamin

One of America's oldest plantation houses, Smiths Castle was recently declared a National Landmark due to archeological discoveries of interest and significance.

Cocumscussoc. Its meaning and its spelling vary, it is tricky to pronounce and impossible to recall, but it designated an area that was destined to become one of the most significant spots in the history of Rhode Island.

The word is Narragansett, the language and name of the preeminent Native American tribe of early 17th-century New England. Scattered in villages on the west side of the bay bearing their name, they were hunters, fishermen, and great farmers.

Roger Williams came to Cocumscussoc around 1637. He learned the Narragansett customs and language and established a trading post on land bought from his friend Canonicus, great sachem of the tribe. This transaction affirmed his belief in fair compensation for Native American land. Williams' other liberal ideas of religious tolerance and separation of church and state were to be key contributions to American political thought.

Also around 1637, Richard Smith, an original settler of Taunton in Plymouth Colony, established a trading post at Cocumscussoc and, according to Williams, "Put up...the first English house...in Nahigonsik Countrey." It is thought to have been a grand house that was, possibly, fortified: thus the name Smith's Castle.

Richard Smith purchased Williams' trading post in 1651. Smith continued to increase his holdings, and Cocumscussoc soon became a center of social, political, and religious activities. Smith died in 1666 leaving Cocumscussoc to his son, Richard Smith, Jr.

In 1675, King Philip, sachem of the Wampanoags, led a coalition of Native Americans in a bloody conflict with the colonists over control of land. The Narragansetts, whose winter home was in the Great Swamp only 12 miles from Cocumscussoc, had pledged neutrality.

Suspecting that the Narragansetts were harboring Wampanoag warriors, 1,000 colonial troops from Massachusetts Bay, Connecticut, and Plymouth colonies massed at the Castle and attacked the Great Swamp village in December 1675. Both sides suffered great losses. Forty colonial soldiers were interred in a mass grave near the Castle. In retaliation for the attack, the Castle was burned in 1676.

By 1678, Smith, Jr. had built a new home with front rooms flanking a large stone fireplace, a kitchen lean-to at the back, and a massive two-story, gabled porch on the front.

During the 18th century, large plantations dotted the Narragansett shoreline from Wickford south to Point Judith and west to Connecticut. Richard Smith, Jr. was one of the first of the so-called Narragansett Planters.

When he died childless in 1692, he bequeathed Cocumscussoc to his nephew Captain Lodowick Updike and Lodowick's wife Abigail Newton Updike. Lodowick and Abigail were first cousins and grandchildren of the elder Richard Smith.

The Updike family developed Cocumscussoc into one of the great plantations of 18th-century New England. At its height, it encompassed more than 3,000 acres, and was divided into five farms worked by tenant farmers, indentured servants, and slaves. The Updikes were primarily stock and dairy farmers producing cheese, a breed of horse known as the Narragansett Pacer, as well as some agricultural crops.

Commerce developed with the entire Atlantic community, including England, the Portuguese islands, Africa, South America, the West Indies, and the other mainland British colonies.

Around 1740, Lodowick's son Daniel extensively remodeled the 1678 structure. He removed the facade gables and projecting front porch, installed an elegant entry staircase, expanded the lean-to kitchen, paneled walls, and encased some beams. At this time, the house appeared much as it does today.

By the end of the 18th century, the era of the great Narragansett plantations had ended. Lodowick Updike, grandson of the first Lodowick Updike to own Cocumscussoc, died in 1804 and divided his plantation lands among six sons.

Homestead Farm, the centerpiece of the holdings, was bequeathed to son Wilkins. His inheritance included Smith's Castle and 300 acres of land.

Out of necessity in 1812, Wilkins Updike sold Cocumscussoc to Benjamin Congdon. Congdon and his heirs continued to sell off property until the house and remaining farm acreage were purchased in 1870 by the first in a series of successive short-term owners.

During the late 1800's the exterior of the Castle was substantially renovated in a fashionable, Victorian style. A veranda wrapped around the front and side of the house, the gable ends were clipped, and several new buildings were added.

In 1919 the Fox family transformed the former plantation into a modern dairy farm. They developed a purebred milk-producing cow registered as the Cocumcussoc [sic] Ayrshire and operated a Wickford retail milk route and an ice cream and milk bar.

After Mr. Fox's death in 1937, the herd was dispersed and three hundred years of Cocumscussoc agricultural enterprise came to a close.

The historic home soon fell into neglect and suffered vandalism. Its remaining lands were subdivided and development loomed. The Castle was threatened with demolition.

In 1948, a group of concerned citizens established the Cocumscussoc Association, which purchased the property in order to preserve and assure its use for public education. Because of their foresight, Smith's Castle remains today a Rhode Island and American treasure.

Newport Sail - Scott Simmions

The Updike family developed Cocumscussoc into one of the great plantations of 18th-century New England. At its height, it encompassed more than 3,000 acres, and was divided into five farms worked by tenant farmers, indentured servants, and slaves. The Updikes were primarily stock and dairy farmers producing cheese, a breed of horse known as the Narragansett Pacer, as well as some agricultural crops.

Around 1740, Lodowick's son Daniel extensively remodeled the 1678 structure. He removed the facade gables and projecting front porch, installed an elegant entry staircase, expanded the lean-to kitchen, paneled walls, and encased some beams. At this time, the house appeared much as it does today.

In 1948, a group of concerned citizens established the Cocumscussoc Association, which purchased the property in order to preserve and assure its use for public education. Because of their foresight, Smith's Castle remains today a Rhode Island and American treasure.

Poplar Light

Poplar Point Lighthouse

This light is located at the entrance to Wickford Harbor and has an address of 1 Poplar Avenue in North Kingstown.

It is the oldest surviving lighthouse in Rhode Island which is on its original site. It is now a private residence.

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Kingston Community Art Center

Commodore Matthew C. Perry

Born in South Kingstown, Rhode Island on April 10, 1794.
Embarked in a naval career as midshipman at the age of fifteen.
Advanced to the rank of Lieutenant in 1813.
In 1837, Perry supervised the construction of first naval steamship, Fulton.
Promoted to the rank of Captain in 1837.

Old Snuff Mill

Promoted to the rank of Commodore in 1842.
In 1843-1844, Perry commanded the African Squadron, which was engaged in suppressing the slave trade.
In 1853, Perry was sent on a mission by President Millard Fillmore to establish trade with Japan - a country that had been isolated from the outside world since the 17th century.
In July of that same year, Perry leads a squadron of four ships into Tokyo Bay and presented representatives of the Japanese Emperor with the text of a proposed commercial and friendship treaty. The Japanese rejected Perry's demands and Perry withdrew.
Perry returned to Japan in February, 1854. This time he appears with seven ships - four sailing ships, three steamers - and one thousand, six hundred men.
After a standoff, Perry landed for peace and trade talks on March 8, 1854, and began to negotiate with the Japanese to establish a trade agreement.

Admiral Perry's Ship

On March 31, 1854, Perry signs the Treaty of Kanagawa on behalf of the United States, which established "permanent" friendship between the two countries. The treaty guaranteed that the Japanese would save shipwrecked Americans and provide fuel for American ships, but also opened the opportunity for trade between Japan and the United States. The signing of this treaty signaled the end of Japanese isolation.
Perry died in New York City, New York on March 4, 1858.

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Self Portrait - Gilbert Stuart

Hannah

History of Narragansett Bay 6500 BC During the Pleistocene era, primitive man is believed to have arrived in the Narragansett basin. Up until English settlers came, Narragansett Bay was used for fishing, hunting, and water transportation.

1524 Earliest written account of Indians on Narragansett Bay by Giovanni da Verrazano. As seen by Verrazano, the Indians were expert fishermen, by fishing from canoes, the shore, and from nets. They used shells from quahogs for gifts and valuable trading.

1620 From 1620 onward, settlers from nearby Plymouth Colony and the colony of Massachusetts Bay (established 1628) ventured into the Narragansett region to trade with Indian tribes.

1643 Roger Williams came to Rhode Island after he was banished from Massachusetts Bay Colony for being found guilty of expressing corrupt opinions against the King of England. He tried to organize followers to establish a new colony in Narragansett Bay.

He obtained a charter from England which made his area known as the colony of "Providence Plantations in Narragansett Bay" which included Providence, Newport and Portsmouth.

1675-1676 The Indian Wars were fought by Indian tribes in the northeast in an effort to preserve their freedom and land. The wars lasted 88 years, starting in 1675 and ending in 1763.

Of these wars, the King Phillip's War was the most damaging, taking place between 1675-1676 in parts of Rhode Island. Large numbers of Narragansett Indians were slain.

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Most of the Indians that survived were sold into slavery with the others forced to relocate to a small plot of land in Charlestown.

1749 In 1749, Beavertail Light became America's third lighthouse and the first in Rhode Island. It is located in Beavertail State Park in Jamestown on the tip of Conanicut Island. The original tower burned down a few years later and was replaced by a stone tower in 1753. Beavertail light served as a guide to shipping traffic bound for Newport.

1772 On July 9th, 1772, the burning of the HMS Gaspee took place. The Gaspee was a British tax ship sent by King George III to Rhode Island to enforce the Stamp Act and prevent the smuggling of goods on the ship, the Hannah. The Gaspee was lured close to shore by the Hannah and hit a sandbar, which grounded the ship until the morning tide. During the night, Rhode Islanders set fire to the HMS Gaspee in Narragansett Bay.

1787 In 1787, John Brown was captain of the first ship from Providence to reach China, the General Washington. The purpose of the voyage was to start a trade with China. The voyage took 10 months and in 1789, the General Washington reached Providence again after 32,000 miles of sailing. The ship contained approximately $100,000 worth of goods. Over the next 6 decades, more than 75 voyages were made from Narragansett Bay to China for trading purposes.

Little Rest - David Wagner

1781 - This scene shows the arrival of General Washington at Little Rest, or Kingston, Rhode Island on the 6th of March, 1781 to meet with General Rochambeau at Newport. At Little Rest was a detachment of French mounted troops called "Hussars" who were part of the mounted division under the Duke de Luzon stationed at Lebanon, Connecticut. This unit was part of the relay team set up between Rochambeau and Luzun for communications, eight in number and placed out about every twenty miles for that purpose. Washington stayed the night at Kingston and arrived at Newport the next day.

1810 Pt. Judith Light and Coast Guard Station sit on the western entrance to the Narragansett Bay. The original wooden tower was built in 1810, but was blown over during a storm in 1816. A replacement stone tower was built which lasted until 1857, when the existing octagonal tower was built.

1817 The first steam boat appeared on Narragansett Bay on May 28, 1817 named the Firefly. It traveled regular runs between Providence and Newport.

1851 The introduction of the propeller boat to Narragansett Bay took place in 1851. 1854 The city of Providence, the seventh largest community in the United States, reels under its second cholera epidemic in five years. Daily new deaths are reported, with three out of every five occurring in a section of Providence bordering the Moshassuck River, a branch of the Providence River. Dr. Edwin Snow, the Superintendent of Health for the city described the river as "filthy as any common sewer, and the stench arising from it at times pervades the whole neighborhood...At any time, dogs, cats, and hogs may be seen in the water in every stage of decomposition...."

1861 In 1861, the US Naval Academy was moved from Annapolis, Maryland to Newport, Rhode Island for four years.

1869 A Naval torpedo station on Goat Island in Newport was built, which became the Navy's first laboratory.

1870 Rose Island Light was built in 1870 to guide ships around Newport Harbor. The light served until its deactivation in 1971, after the construction of the Newport Bridge which sits directly over Rose Island.

The City of Providence constructs a sewer system which conveys the City's waste through a series of 65 sewer outfalls directly into Providence's urban rivers and harbor.

1883 The establishment of a Naval Training Station, the first shore-based recruit training facility in America on Coasters Harbor Island.

1884 The establishment of the Newport Naval War College. Recognizing the need for a system to treat the waste, the City Council sends City Engineer Samuel M. Gray to Europe to study the latest methods of treating household and industrial waste. His recommendation: a system of interceptors by which sewage would be collected from neighborhood sewage lines and conveyed to Field's Point, a small peninsula on the west bank of the Providence River. There, sewage would be processed by the chemical precipitation method, already in wide use in England.

Castle Hill Light - Richard Grosvenor 1890 Castle Hill Light was built in 1890 to mark the eastern passage of Narragansett Bay.

1901 The Providence Sewage Treatment System is put into operation (now known as the Field's Point Wastewater Treatment Facility). The chemical precipitation plant, the third of its kind in the United States, is the largest of its type ever built. The system consists of a pumping station at Ernest Street to lift sewage to Field's Point for treatment.

1910 Providence's sewage treatment plant begins to run into problems due to inadequacies of the chemical precipitation process and the continuing growth of the City. Providence begins barging and dumping large volumes of sludge into Narragansett Bay, east of Prudence Island, about 14 miles south of Providence.

1911 Between 1911 and 1934 vessels of the Fabre Line, a transatlantic steamship company of French registry, brought immigrants from Eastern Europe to a port in Providence.

1925 The Providence City Council tours eight US cities to learn more about treatment methods that might prevent, or at the very least, decrease pollution into the harbor and Bay.

1929 The Mount Hope Bridge was built, becoming the largest suspension bridge of its time. 1930-1934 Despite the law suit before the US Supreme Court over the patent rights to the activated sludge process, the City undertakes the task of converting the Field's Point plant to an activated sludge process plant.

1938 On September 21, 1938, the Hurricane of '38 came and stories of terror were created along Narragansett Bay. A school bus carrying 8 students from Clarke Elementary School in Jamestown was devoured by a killer wave and pulled into Mackerel Cove. In addition to the driver, only one of the eight children survived. A twenty-foot storm surge drove up Narragansett Bay and into the Sakonnet River with seven people killed from the high swells. With winds of 120 miles per hour, waves charged up the Providence River and in less than an hour, the water level in Downtown Providence was a record 13 feet. In Rhode Island 262 people died and thousands were badly injured because of the hurricane. 1940 The Jamestown bridge was built to connect North Kingstown to Conanicut Island.

1941 The Newport Naval Base was created on Narragansett Bay with facilities including the Quonset Point Naval Air Station. 1946-1949 Modern vacuum filters replace the old sludge presses; a multiple-hearth incinerator is built; and the facilities for chlorination of the final effluent are installed. 1950 A new grit building, two new primary settling tanks and a primary sludge pumping station are completed and substantial remodeling is completed to keep Field's Point functioning optimally.

1959 A large addition to the laboratory building is completed---the last major addition or maintenance work on Field's Point for two decades.

1969 The Newport Bridge was built to connect Newport with Jamestown to replace a long run ferry.

1970's In the absence of a continuous maintenance program, the condition of the Field's Point plant declines to the point where nearly 65 million gallons of untreated or partially treated sewage flow into Rhode Island's waters everyday, jeopardizing the state's and region's environmental and economic well-being. Once bountiful shellfishing beds close due to pollution, and travelers of the Bay report seeing grease deposits the size of soccer balls floating on the water surface. 1972 Congress enacts the Clean Water Act, comprehensive national legislation that sets the basic structure for regulating polluted discharges from industries and sewer treatment plants to national waterways. The Clean Water Act also sets national standards for pollution reduction and defines limits that must be achieved by the public's wastewater treatment plants.

1973 Quonset Point Naval Air Station was closed. The US EPA orders the City of Providence to address the chronic pollution problem associated with the aged Field's Point WWTF and CSO discharges, which violate the Clean Water Act. 1979 Governor Garrahy creates a Governor's Sewerage Facilities Task Force to address the EPA mandates. The Task Force recommends the creation of a quasi-public commission to take over and rehabilitate the Field's Point facility.

1980 The Narragansett Bay Water Quality District Commission is formed, and the voters of Rhode Island vote overwhelmingly in favor of an $87.7 million bond issue to fund much-needed improvements at Field's Point. 1989 In 1989, the World Prodigy, a 560-foot tanker went off course and ran aground on Brenton Reef near Newport spilling a million gallons of fuel oil, causing considerable environmental damage.

1992 $100 million upgrade of Field's Point is complete. By order of the State of Rhode Island, the Narragansett Bay Commission takes over operation of the state's second largest sewage treatment plant, the Bucklin Point Wastewater Treatment Facility in East Providence.

The Jamestown-Verrazzano Bridge was built to replace the existing Jamestown bridge. 1995 Just fifteen years after the USEPA singled out Field's Point as one of the worst treatment plants in the United States, Field's Point receives the EPA's award for Best Large Secondary Treatment Facility in the Country.

1996 On January 19, 1996, the tank barge, the North Cape and the tug Scandia grounded on Moonstone Beach in southern Rhode Island after the tug caught fire, spilling an estimated 828,000 gallons of home heating oil.

1998 Narragansett Bay Commission Pretreatment Program receives US EPA's National Pretreatment Excellence Award in the Large Significant Industrial Users category. This award honors those organizations that are demonstrating their commitment to the protection and improvement of the nation's waters through their operation and exemplary pretreatment programs.

1999-2001 RIDEM reviews and approves the NBC's Combined Sewer Overflow Abatement Plan, a 3-phase, 20-year comprehensive project to end CSO discharges into Upper Narragansett Bay.

2000 USEPA chooses NBC to participate in Project XL, an innovative new program for providing regulatory flexibility to environmentally responsible companies. NBC is only one of five WWTFs nationwide chosen as a Project XL partner.

2001 NBC breaks ground on Phase 1 of the CSO Plan, tackling the largest remaining point source of pollution into Narragansett Bay and the urban rivers.

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