Compiled by Evan Hill

This chronological story of Newport is 200+ pages long and is generously shared with anyone who would like to read or use the information.

You may simply scroll through the pages for the fun of it, if you like, poking along to see what emerges, or to satisfy your general interest in history. But if you seek some particular date to see what happened then, or if you want to know when the town acquired the Common, or when the Newport House burned or when the Newport Opera House Association was formed, or what a factory worker earned in 1910, then see SEARCHING at the beginning of the chronology document.