Comprised mostly of a finger of land bordering Bristol County, MA. Contains Bristol, the county seat, Barrington, and Warren. Mount Hope Bay borders it on its east.
Home of Ezra Stiles, where he pastored the Second Congregational Church before becoming president of Yale.
Capitol of RI, lying at the head of Narragansett Bay. After being an agricultural, and then a shipbuilding center, it became, by the 1830s, an important manufacturing center, especially for textiles.
Home of Brown University.
Middle of Newport County; the largest island in Narragansett Bay; contains city of Newport.
Has Bristol County on its west, and part of Newport County (Tiverton and N. Tiverton) on its east. Empties into Narragansett Bay.
Cuts more than halfway up the state, separating the main body of RI from the irregular five-mile strip attached to the western border of Bristol County, MA.