Miantonomi Memorial Park

Miantonomi Memorial Park is a public park between Hillside Avenue and Girard Avenue in Newport, Rhode Island. Indigenous people used the area around the park for hundreds of years and the park is named after Narragansett Sachem, or Chief, Miantonomi. Aquidneck Island, where this is located, was sold to William Coddington "and friends" in 1637 by Miantonomi and his uncle Canonicus. The settlers used the hill as a lookout and in 1667 built a beacon on the hill. During the American Revolutionary War fortifications were built on the hill, fragments of which still survive. In 1921, the City of Newport received the property from the local Stokes family. Miantonomi Memorial Park's 30 acres became part of the Aquidneck Land Trust through an easement in 2005.[1]