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Island Cemetery & Belmont Chapel Walking Tour
Sat, May 11
|Meet at the Cemetery entrance
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. Please sign into (or create) your website account to register. (Members Page)
Time & Location
May 11, 2024, 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM
Meet at the Cemetery entrance, Warner Street
Guests
About the Event
We are offering this combination tour once again. It will be great to see the progress of the Chapel Restoration - 3 new stained glass windows will be installed by the time of our tour with the total restoration expected by year end.
https://www.belmontchapelfoundation.org/aerial-view-of-chapel-progress
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,…