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| | Newport, Rhode Island - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Newport was founded in 1639 by William Coddington, John Clarke, and others, who left Portsmouth, Rhode Island after a political fallout with Anne Hutchinson and her followers. |
 | | The Quaker meetinghouse in Newport (1699) is the oldest house of worship in Rhode Island. |
 | | Newport is also home to the Newport Tower, Salve Regina University, Hammersmith Farm, Prescott Farm, and the Touro Synagogue, the oldest Jewish house of worship in the United States, as well as Redwood Library and Athenaeum, the nation's oldest lending library. |
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