Corner of Spring & Broadway, Newport RI, 1885 vs. 2025
Comparing past and present locations through photography.Corner of Spring & Broadway, 1885 vs. 2025

Welcome to Newport, Rhode Island, the city by the sea.
That storm has already overwhelmed the drainage ability of our brand-new roadway

Welcome to Newport, Rhode Island, the city by the sea.
What flag is this? Looks like a John Paul Jones flag but different coloring and scaling. Seen in Washington Square in Philadelphia

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Sandy Point (now an island) has migrated almost a mile north since 1905
A place for people to share interesting facts, pictures, videos, etc. about Rhode Island history!This island in Rhode Island has migrated almost a mile north since 1905
Comparing past and present locations through photography.Just noticed this in an old rail atlas - Sandy Point (now an island) in Westerly used to be attached and fully in Rhode Island

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Newport, RI, 1916 vs. 2025
A place for people to share interesting facts, pictures, videos, etc. about Rhode Island history!This corner store was outlawed by zoning & eventually demolished. It’s now a vacant lot

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A few then & now photos of Newport, RI
Comparing past and present locations through photography.450 Eleventh Avenue, NYC (Aloft Hotel) - Why are the east and south sides completely blank?

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TIL that during the revolution, Newport was (roughly) the 5th largest city in the US
A place for people to share interesting facts, pictures, videos, etc. about Rhode Island history!TIL that during the revolution, Newport was (roughly) the 5th largest city in the US

Welcome to Newport, Rhode Island, the city by the sea.
TIL that climate change is caused by sidewalks - NIMBY ad in local newspaper

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Definitely in my top 3 American passenger railways

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Both ladder trucks out for a fire on Green Street

Welcome to Newport, Rhode Island, the city by the sea.
Don’t ever talk to me or my Grom again

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Non-profit “Friends of the High Line” is now saving the park from … new residents?

YIMBY: content and discussion related to the "Yes in My Back Yard" cause. What do we want? Affordable housing near where people want to live and work! When do we want it? As soon as we can safely construct it!