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NARRAGANSETT , a township of See also:Washington See also:county, Rhode See also:Island, U.S.A. on the W. See also:shore of Narragansett See also:Bay, about 25 M. S. of See also:Providence and about 8 m. W.S.W. of See also:Newport. Pop. (1890) 1408; (1900) 1523; (1905) 1469; (1910) 1250. See also:Area about 15 sq. m. It is connected at See also:Kingston Station (about 9 M. N.W.) by the Narragansett See also:Pier railway with the shore See also:line of the New See also:York, New Haven & See also:Hartford railway; an electric line connects with Providence. The See also:southern See also:part of the See also:town-See also:ship is a See also:peninsula, lying between the mouth of Narragansett Bay and an inlet separating this part of the township from See also:South See also:Kingstown. Narragansett Pier, within the township, has a See also:fine bathing See also:beach, which extends along the indented See also:coast between the See also:village and the mouth of the Pattaquamscutt See also:river; the force of the surf is somewhat broken by Point See also:Judith, about 5 M. S. (also in the township), on which there is a lighthouse. On a See also:ridge overlooking the ocean and commanding a fine view is the Point Judith See also:Country See also:Club, with See also:golf courses, See also:tennis courts and a See also:polo-See also:- FIELD (a word common to many West German languages, cf. Ger. Feld, Dutch veld, possibly cognate with O.E. f olde, the earth, and ultimately with root of the Gr. irAaror, broad)
- FIELD, CYRUS WEST (1819-1892)
- FIELD, DAVID DUDLEY (18o5-1894)
- FIELD, EUGENE (1850-1895)
- FIELD, FREDERICK (18o1—1885)
- FIELD, HENRY MARTYN (1822-1907)
- FIELD, JOHN (1782—1837)
- FIELD, MARSHALL (183 1906)
- FIELD, NATHAN (1587—1633)
- FIELD, STEPHEN JOHNSON (1816-1899)
- FIELD, WILLIAM VENTRIS FIELD, BARON (1813-1907)
field, on which is held a See also:horse show at the See also:close of each See also:season. Many of the summer visitors at Narragansett Pier are from New See also:England, New York and See also:Philadelphia, but there is a sufficient number from See also:Baltimore, Washington, See also:Richmond, See also:Louisville and other Southern cities to give to its society a noticeably Southern See also:tone. Narragansett Pier was so-named from the piers that were built here See also:late in the 18th See also:century and See also:early in the 19th to provide a See also:port for the Narragansett Country, or southern Rhode Island, and it still has a See also:coal See also:wharf, and a yacht landing at the See also:Casino. The development of the See also:place as a summer resort was begun about the See also:middle of the 19th century by the erection of a bathing-See also:house and the See also:conversion of some See also:farm houses into boarding houses. The erection of large hotels and private residences soon followed, and the completion of the railway to the pier in 1876 increased its popularity. The See also:District of Narragansett (in the town of South Kingstown) was organized in 1888 and in 1901 was incorporated as a See also:separate township.
The town is named from the Narraganset See also:Indians, a once-powerful Algonquian tribe, which occupied much of the shore of Narragansett Bay. Under their See also:chief Canonicus (d. 1647) they were friendly to the early Rhode Island settlers, and under See also:Miantonomo (q.v.) entered into a tripartite treaty with the See also:Connecticut colonists and the Mohegans; but after the See also:execution of Miantonomo the Narragansets under Miantonomo's son, Canonchet or Nanuntenoo, were less friendly. Their See also:loyalty to the whites was suspected at the See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time of See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
King See also:- PHILIP
- PHILIP (Gr.'FiXtrsro , fond of horses, from dn)^eiv, to love, and limos, horse; Lat. Philip pus, whence e.g. M. H. Ger. Philippes, Dutch Filips, and, with dropping of the final s, It. Filippo, Fr. Philippe, Ger. Philipp, Sp. Felipe)
- PHILIP, JOHN (1775-1851)
- PHILIP, KING (c. 1639-1676)
- PHILIP, LANOGRAVE OF HESSE (1504-1567)
Philip's See also:War, and on the 19th of See also:December 1675, at the See also:Great or See also:Cedar Swamp (Narragansett Fort) in the See also:present town of South Kingstown (immediately See also:west of the town of Narragansett), they were decisively defeated by the whites, under See also:Governor See also:Josiah See also:Winslow of the See also:Plymouth See also:Colony. The site of the engagement is marked by a See also:granite See also:monument erected in 1906 by the Rhode Island Society of Colonial See also:Wars. Canonchet escaped, but on the and of See also:August 1676 was captured near See also:Stonington, Connecticut, and on the following See also:day was executed. Most of the survivors of the tribe were later settled among the Niantic, to whom the name Narraganset has been transferred. There are now few survivors of pure See also:Indian See also:blood.
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