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The Rose Island Light, built in 1870, is on Rose Island in
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in
Newport, Rhode Island Newport is an American seaside city on Aquidneck Island in Newport County, Rhode Island. It is located in Narragansett Bay, approximately southeast of Providence, Rhode Island, Providence, south of Fall River, Massachusetts, south of Boston, ...
in the United States. It is preserved, maintained and operated by The Rose Island Lighthouse Foundation. One of a group of
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lighthouses built to an award-winning design by Vermont architect Albert Dow, Rose Island Light has sisters at
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, Pomham Rocks, Esopus Meadows Light and Colchester Reef. The lighthouse stands atop a bastion of
Fort Hamilton Fort Hamilton is a United States Army installation in the southwestern corner of the New York City borough of Brooklyn, surrounded by the communities of Bay Ridge and Dyker Heights. It is one of several posts that are part of the region which is ...
, which was built in 1798-1800. The building was abandoned as a functioning lighthouse in 1970, when the Newport Bridge was constructed nearby. In 1984, the Rose Island Lighthouse Foundation was founded to restore the dilapidated light on behalf of the City of Newport, which had received it for free from the United States government.www.roseislandlighthouse.org
(accessed Dec. 9. 2008) In 1987, the federal government listed the lighthouse on the
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. In 1992 it was relit as a private aid to navigation. The lighthouse is today a travel destination, reached only by boat. For a fee to the Foundation, visitors can spend a night as a guest or a week as the "lighthouse keeper," completing many of the chores required to keep the lighthouse in good condition.


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National Register of Historic Places listings in Newport County, Rhode Island __NOTOC__ This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Newport County, Rhode Island. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Newport County, ...


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Rose Island Lighthouse Foundation
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