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The Common Burying Ground and Island Cemetery are a pair of separate cemeteries on Farewell and Warner Street in Newport, Rhode Island. Together they contain over 5,000 graves, including a colonial -era slave cemetery and Jewish graves. The pair of cemeteries was added to the National Register of Historic Places as a single listing in 1974.
In 1993, Rivero Funeral Homes (established in 1946 in Havana, Cuba), the largest funeral home business in Florida, was also acquired and the name changed at that time to Caballero Rivero Woodlawn North Park Cemetery and Mausoleum. Caballero Rivero Woodlawn North Park Cemetery and Mausoleum is located at 3260 SW 8th St, Miami FL 33135, on SW 8 ...
John Cranston (1625–1680) was a colonial physician, military leader, legislator, deputy governor and governor of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations during the 17th century. Biographical summary [ edit ]
Allan Wai-Ket Fung (born February 25, 1970) is an American attorney and politician who served as Mayor of Cranston, Rhode Island from 2009 to 2021. He was the Republican nominee for Governor of Rhode Island in the 2014 and 2018 elections as well as the Republican nominee for U.S. representative for Rhode Island's 2nd congressional district in 2022.
The oldest building in Rhode Island tested using dendrochronology was the Clemence-Irons House (1691) in Johnston, although the Lucas–Johnston House in Newport holds some timbers which were felled prior to 1650, but likely reused from an earlier building. [2]
A New York state Supreme Court struck down a Long Island county’s transgender athlete ban on Friday. The executive order, issued in February by Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman, was shot ...
Paul Schrader absentmindedly builds installation art out of seven prescription bottles, two inhalers and an empty martini glass, as we sit in a restaurant for seniors in a Manhattan high-rise.
Henry Curtis Lind, 14th reporter of decisions of the US Supreme Court; born in Cranston. Nicholas Mattiello, Rhode Island state representative; lived in Cranston. David Moretti, actor ( Dante's Cove, The Lair ); born in Cranston. Michael Napolitano, Mayor of Cranston (2007–2009)