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Island Cemetery & Belmont Chapel Walking Tour
Sun, Oct 01
|Island Cemetery & Belmont Chapel
Mike Margonis will lead off with a tour of the historic Island Cemetery followed by a tour of the Belmont Chapel by the Founder of the restoration project - a wonderful community initiative. Tour for 20 people. Please sign into your Website Member Account (Members Page) before you RSVP.
Time & Location
Oct 01, 2023, 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM
Island Cemetery & Belmont Chapel, Farewell St & Warner St, Newport, RI 02840, USA
Guests
About the Event
Visit the largest number of colonial era headstones in a single cemetery. Many members of Newport's most prominent families have been buried there over the years.
Please meet at the Cemetery entrance on Warner Street and join our TOH historian, Mike Margolis, to tour the Island
Cemetery and the Common Burying Ground, two separate cemeteries on Farewell and Warner Streets. Together they contain more than 5,000 graves including a colonial era slave cemetery and Jewish graves. The pair of cemeteries were added to the National Register of Historic Places as a single listing in 1974.
We’ll then pay a special visit to the inspiring Belmont Chapel, currently undergoing final restoration. At the Chapel, we’ll meet Harry Eudenbach, President of the Belmont Chapel Foundation, for an exclusive review of the progress made on the Chapel’s restoration.
August Belmont
August Belmont Sr. was a German American financier, diplomat, and politician who emigrated…