Master Timeline

By kmurphy90
  • Period: to

    British occupation during Revolution

    Wikipedia?
  • Period: to

    Rochambeau and other French troops post up in Newport

    Wiki?

  • Prov shipping surpasses Newport's

    Sterngass
  • Period: to

    Embargo and Nonintercourse Acts

    Restricted American ships from engaging in foreign trade between the years of 1807 and 1812. The Acts were diplomatic responses by presidents Thomas Jefferson and James Madison designed to protect American interests and avoid war. They failed, and helped cause the War of 1812 between the U.S. and Britain. -- Wikipedia
  • Period: to

    No new construction in Newport

    Sterngass

  • First hotel in Newport: Francis Brinley House, later the Bellevue

    Sterngass: sometime in 1820s?

  • The Fashionable Tour published

    Weiss

  • Tourism picked up after new hotel

    Weiss. What hotel?

  • "Quite a swarm of strangers" in Newport

    Sterngass

  • Ocean House built

    Sterngass: Milestone, 300 guest CAP

  • Bay State Steamboat Co.

    TIME Mag article. Precursor of the Old Colony/Fall River Line (steamboat)

  • Regular steamboat service from NY to Newport in 1847

    Weiss

  • Newport: "celebrated watering place"

    Weiss
  • Period: to

    CIVIL WAR

  • Fall River RR merged with Newport and Fall River RR to make Old Colony and Newport RR

    Wikipedia

  • RR from Newport to Fall River completed

    Old Colony RR Wikipedia

  • Private summer homes surpass hotels

    Weiss