News from the Rhode Island shore, Wakefield to Watch Hill
Narragansett has all three permits to dredge the mouth of the Narrow River, but without an earmark and with the window closing Jan. 31, the work will wait another year.
Ellison “Tarzan” Brown won the Boston Marathon in 1936 and 1939 and ran in the 1936 Olympics. A hill on the course got its name from him.
Ninigret led the Eastern Niantic in what is now Charlestown and Westerly in the 1600s. He kept his people out of King Philip’s War.
Hannah Robinson, daughter of a wealthy South Kingstown planter, defied her father to marry and died young. A lookout tower near her favorite spot bears her name.
The stone arch called the Towers is all that survived a 1900 fire at the Narragansett Pier Casino. The town now rents it for weddings and events.
Narragansett and Wampanoag elder Princess Red Wing co-founded the Tomaquag Museum in 1958 to teach Native history from a Native point of view.