Reminiscences of Newport

George Champlin Mason

Charles E. Hammett, Jr., 1884 - Newport (R.I.) - 407 pages

Contents

• A Water1ng Place: 9
• The State House and Parade: 19
• The Po1nt: 37
• The Newport Hedrews: 53
• Purgatory: 70
• Old Dances: 76
• Early Newport Pr1nters and Old Newspapers: 82
• Old T1me Frol1cs: 97
• The Last Colored Undertaker: 104
• Pol1t1cs E1ghty Years Ago: 108
• The C1ty Hall: 116
• The Old Theatre: 119
• The Story of an Opal: 126
• The Fr1gate General Greene: 130
• Proposed Navy Yard 1n Newport Act1on Taken 1n 1800 The Cove Tendered to the General Government for a Dockyard: 138
• Sarah W1lson: 144
• Commerce of Newport E1ghty Years Ago: 149
• Newport Gardner: 154
• A Love Story: 160
• The Vernon P1ctures: 165
• The Newport Insurance Company: 174
• Old S1gns: 178
• Robert Johnston: 186
• The Sh1p Fame and Schooner Fame of 1745: 191
• Cynth1a Taggart: 197
• Old Inv1tat1ons: 202
• A Youth of the Wanton Fam1ly: 223
• Old Novels: 228
• SmallPox 1n the E1ghteenth Century: 235
• Old M1n1atures: 241
• S1lhouettes: 260
• The Redwood L1brary Portra1tGallery: 265
• The Hammond L1brary: 273
• Talleyrands V1s1t to Newport: 281
• The Newport Art1llery: 283
• Portra1ts of Wash1ngton: 289
• Fort Adams: 294
• Cooks Sh1p Endeavour: 300
• Honors pa1d to Commodore Perry: 302
• Tr1n1ty Church: 307
• The Graveyard of Tr1n1ty Church: 313
• M1chele Fel1ce Corne: 330
• Yellow Ware: 341
• Old Ch1na: 348
• Energet1c Women: 357
• The Brenton House: 365
• Old Houses: 375
• The Chesebrough House: 385
• The G1bbs Mans1on: 390
• The Old Stone M1ll at Newport: 392

Bibliographic information

• Title: Reminiscences of Newport; Genealogy & local history
• Author: George Champlin Mason
• Publisher: Charles E. Hammett, Jr., 1884
• Original from: Harvard University
• Digitized: Sep 6, 2006
• Length: 407 pages