Frazier's Disposal Service provides roll-off dumpster service to residents & contractors in Newport, Middletown, Portsmouth, Tiverton & Jamestown RI
Joe explains the uniform: “In the summer of 1966 I took a summer student job as a toll collector with the Hampton Roads Bridge Tunnel. Remember those $1.25 tolls? This picture was taken after a day shift and I was wearing the State of Virginia uniform.” A few months after that photo...
The first settlement (about 1790) was named for Christopher Newport, commander of the first ship to reach Jamestown, Virginia, in 1607. The only antislavery newspaper (The Free South), published in Kentucky during the 1850s, was edited in Newport by William Shreve Bailey, who, after a pro...
It occupies the southern end of Rhode (Aquidneck) Island in Narragansett Bay (there bridged to Jamestown). From the harbour on the west, the city rises up a gentle hillside to a low plateau. Newport was founded in 1639 by a group of religious refugees from Massachusetts who had settled ...