Newport
Newport names 3 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Newport a city, port of entry
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
a city, port of entry, county-seat of Newport co., and until Rhode 1900 one of the capitals of Island; on the island of Rhode Island, in Narragansett Bay, and on the New York, New Haven and Hartford railroad; about 30 miles S. E. of Providence. Its principal importance is as a summer resort, to which the coast near by is wholly given up. The bath- . There ing facilities are unsurpassed are many beautiful summer residences, and during the fashionable season Newport is filled with the wealthiest society of Boston, New York, and other cities. The harbor, one of the best on the is defended by Fort Adams, one strongest forts in the United The locality has many natural the Hanging Spouting Cave, and the Glen, a chasm 50 feet deep. The United States Naval War College, United States Station, Torpedo Station, Naval Hoslocated pital, and Marine Barracks are here, and there are besides a public Melibrary, Newport Hospital, Hazard Tower, or Old morial School, the Round ; the Vernon Stone Mill in Touro Park house, which was Rochambeau's head- During the quarters, built in 1780, etc. Newport World War was an important naval station. Newport has por manufactories of flour, cotton goods, copper, brass, oil, etc. Pop. (1910) (1920) 30,255.
Newport a town in Monmouthshire
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
a town in Monmouthshire, London. Be- England, 145 miles W. of ing one of the principal outlets for the collieries and produce of the extensive and steel works in the vicinity, its shipping trade has of late years greatly increased, and with it, as a result, its dock accommodation, which now covers more than 80 acres. Newport has manufactures of india-rubber, guttapercha, and railway and telegraph plants and wagons, and several important brass and iron foundries are in operation, as well as breweries and pottown tery works. On Nov. 4, 1839, the . was the center of a Chartist outbreak Pop. (1917) 82,709.
Newport a city in Campbell co.
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
a city in Campbell co., Ky.; at the confluence of the Licking and Ohio rivers, and on the Louisville and Nashville, and the Chesapeake and , O. Ohio railroads; opposite Cincinnati the Ohio, and Two bridges here cross two the Licking river, connecting Newport with Cincinnati and Covington. The city contains a United States milibanks, tary post, waterworks, National schools gas and electric lights, high , parks, banks, municipal buildings, Mahas iron mills, manusonic Temple. It factories of watch cases, nuts, bolts, carcarriages, pianos, rails, screens, and riage supplies. Pop. (1910) 30,309; (1920) 29,317.
What Has Changed in the Last Century
All three Newports have moved a long way from Collier's 1921 sketches. Rhode Island's Newport is smaller now (about 25,000 people against the 30,255 Collier's reported) but its "beautiful summer residences" became museums under the Preservation Society of Newport County, founded in 1945, while the Naval War College and Naval Station Newport survive and the Torpedo Station's work passed to the Naval Undersea Warfare Center; the town also hosted the America's Cup from 1930 until Australia II took it in 1983, and gained the Newport Jazz and Folk Festivals in the 1950s and a toll bridge across Narragansett Bay in 1969. The Monmouthshire town, whose "principal outlets for the collieries" Collier's stressed, lost the coal export trade entirely; it is now firmly in Wales, was made a city in 2002, and has roughly 150,000 people, five times the 82,709 of 1917. Newport, Kentucky, has shrunk to about 14,000 and is best remembered for the illegal casino trade that made it a byword for vice until reformers took the county in 1961; the riverfront now carries an aquarium and entertainment complex opened in the late 1990s.
Written for this edition, 2026.