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class="mw-file-description"><img alt="Newport Harbor Light (1842) on northern tip of Goat Island as seen from The Point" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fd/Newport_Harbor_Light_in_Newport%2C_Rhode_Island_%282008%29.jpg/300px-Newport_Harbor_Light_in_Newport%2C_Rhode_Island_%282008%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="300" height="225" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fd/Newport_Harbor_Light_in_Newport%2C_Rhode_Island_%282008%29.jpg/450px-Newport_Harbor_Light_in_Newport%2C_Rhode_Island_%282008%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fd/Newport_Harbor_Light_in_Newport%2C_Rhode_Island_%282008%29.jpg/600px-Newport_Harbor_Light_in_Newport%2C_Rhode_Island_%282008%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2304" data-file-height="1728" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption"><a href="/wiki/Goat_Island_Light_(Rhode_Island)" class="mw-redirect" title="Goat Island Light (Rhode Island)">Newport Harbor Light</a> (1842) on northern tip of Goat Island as seen from <a href="/wiki/Easton%27s_Point" title="Easton's Point">The Point</a>. The <a href="/wiki/Claiborne_Pell_Bridge" class="mw-redirect" title="Claiborne Pell Bridge">Claiborne Pell Bridge</a> can be seen in the background.</div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><a class="mw-kartographer-map notheme mw-kartographer-container center" style="width: 250px; height: 200px;" data-mw-kartographer="mapframe" data-style="osm-intl" data-width="250" data-height="200" data-zoom="7" data-overlays="["_be62e378f53e3fb180f8de58b8fbae185385ef40"]"><img src="https://maps.wikimedia.org/img/osm-intl,7,a,a,250x200.png?lang=en&domain=en.wikipedia.org&title=Goat_Island_%28Rhode_Island%29&revid=1256463701&groups=_be62e378f53e3fb180f8de58b8fbae185385ef40" width="250" height="200" decoding="async" srcset="https://maps.wikimedia.org/img/osm-intl,7,a,a,250x200@2x.png?lang=en&domain=en.wikipedia.org&title=Goat_Island_%28Rhode_Island%29&revid=1256463701&groups=_be62e378f53e3fb180f8de58b8fbae185385ef40 2x" alt="Map" /></a></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Geography</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Coordinates</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="geo-inline"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1156832818">.mw-parser-output .geo-default,.mw-parser-output .geo-dms,.mw-parser-output .geo-dec{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .geo-nondefault,.mw-parser-output .geo-multi-punct,.mw-parser-output .geo-inline-hidden{display:none}.mw-parser-output .longitude,.mw-parser-output .latitude{white-space:nowrap}</style><span class="plainlinks nourlexpansion"><a class="external text" href="https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Goat_Island_(Rhode_Island)&params=41_29.112_N_71_19.681_W_type:landmark_scale:10000_region:US"><span class="geo-default"><span class="geo-dms" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location"><span class="latitude">41°29.112′N</span> <span class="longitude">71°19.681′W</span></span></span><span class="geo-multi-punct"> / </span><span class="geo-nondefault"><span class="geo-dec" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location">41.485200°N 71.328017°W</span><span style="display:none"> / <span class="geo">41.485200; -71.328017</span></span></span></a></span></span></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Administration</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><div><b>United States</b></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">State</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Rhode_Island" title="Rhode Island">Rhode Island</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">City</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Newport,_Rhode_Island" title="Newport, Rhode Island">Newport</a></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Goat Island</b> is a small island in <a href="/wiki/Narragansett_Bay" title="Narragansett Bay">Narragansett Bay</a> and is part of the city of <a href="/wiki/Newport,_Rhode_Island" title="Newport, Rhode Island">Newport, Rhode Island</a>, U.S. The island is connected to the <a href="/wiki/Easton%27s_Point" title="Easton's Point">Easton's Point</a> neighborhood via a <a href="/wiki/Causeway" title="Causeway">causeway</a> bridge. It is home to the <a href="/wiki/Goat_Island_Light_(Rhode_Island)" class="mw-redirect" title="Goat Island Light (Rhode Island)">Newport Harbor Light</a> (1842), residences, a restaurant, event space, and hotel. It was also home to several military forts and to the <a href="/wiki/U.S._Naval_Torpedo_Station" class="mw-redirect" title="U.S. Naval Torpedo Station">U.S. Naval Torpedo Station</a>, and was the site of the attacks on <a href="/wiki/HMS_St_John_(1764)" title="HMS St John (1764)">HMS <i>St John</i></a> and <a href="/wiki/HMS_Liberty_(1768)" title="HMS Liberty (1768)">HMS <i>Liberty</i></a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Colonial_History">Colonial History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Goat_Island_(Rhode_Island)&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Colonial History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Goat_Island_Fort_George_RI_plaque.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ef/Goat_Island_Fort_George_RI_plaque.jpg/220px-Goat_Island_Fort_George_RI_plaque.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ef/Goat_Island_Fort_George_RI_plaque.jpg/330px-Goat_Island_Fort_George_RI_plaque.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ef/Goat_Island_Fort_George_RI_plaque.jpg/440px-Goat_Island_Fort_George_RI_plaque.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2304" data-file-height="1728" /></a><figcaption>Fort George plaque on Goat Island</figcaption></figure> <p>Narragansett Indians called the island "Nante Sinunk" and sold it in 1658.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Early Newport colonists used the island as a goat <a href="/wiki/Pasture" title="Pasture">pasture</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-providenceri.com_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-providenceri.com-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The island's name has also been attributed to early colonists' discovery of a breed of goats nicknamed the New American Goat. An earthen fort was built on Goat Island in 1703 during the <a href="/wiki/War_of_Spanish_Succession" class="mw-redirect" title="War of Spanish Succession">War of Spanish Succession</a>, and it was named "Fort Anne" after the reigning <a href="/wiki/Anne,_Queen_of_Great_Britain" title="Anne, Queen of Great Britain">Queen Anne</a>. </p><p>On Friday, July 19, 1723, twenty-six <a href="/wiki/Pirate" class="mw-redirect" title="Pirate">pirates</a> were buried on the north end of Goat Island, on the shore, between high and low water mark. The significance of this placement is that, to Christians of this era, this inter-tidal land was considered "unhallowed ground," like burials placed outside of a consecrated cemetery. The men had been tried in Newport between July 10 and 12 and hanged at nearby Bull's Point (<a href="/wiki/Easton%27s_Point" title="Easton's Point">Gravelly Point</a>). They were: Charles Harris, Thomas Linicar, Daniel Hyde, Stephen Mundon, Abraham Lacy, Edward Lawson, John Tomkins, Francis Laughton, John Fisgerald, William Studfield, Owen Rice, William Read, John Bright, Thomas Hazel, William Blades (Rhode Island), Thomas Hagget, Peter Cues, William Jones, Edward Eaton, John Brown, James Sprinkly, Joseph Sound, Charles Church, John Waters, Thomas Powell (Connecticut), and Joseph Libbey.<sup id="cite_ref-providenceri.com_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-providenceri.com-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> "The pirates were all young men, most of them natives of England."<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The following is taken from <i>The Salem Observer</i>, November 11, 1843: "...this was the most extensive execution of pirates that ever took place at one time in the Colonies, it was attended by a vast multitude from every part of New England."<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1738, a stone fort was built and renamed <a href="/wiki/Fort_Wolcott#Fort_George" title="Fort Wolcott">Fort George</a> after <a href="/wiki/George_II_of_Great_Britain" title="George II of Great Britain">King George II</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Goat_Island_Military_History_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Goat_Island_Military_History-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1764, Newporters took over Fort George and fired shots at <a href="/wiki/HMS_St_John_(1764)" title="HMS St John (1764)">HMS <i>St. John</i></a>, a Royal Navy schooner, under orders from the governor of Rhode Island and the <a href="/wiki/Rhode_Island_General_Assembly" title="Rhode Island General Assembly">General Assembly</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1769, Rhode Islanders burned the customs ship <a href="/wiki/HMS_Liberty_(1768)" title="HMS Liberty (1768)">HMS <i>Liberty</i></a> when it drifted to the north end of Goat Island (near where the pirates were buried) in another early act of rebellion against British rule. </p><p>In September 2018 maritime archaeologists reported that they had discovered the resting place of <a href="/wiki/James_Cook" title="James Cook">Captain Cook's</a> <a href="/wiki/HMS_Endeavour" title="HMS Endeavour">HMS <i>Endeavour</i></a> just off the coast of Goat Island, where it had been used to blockade the Americans during the American Revolutionary War. The ship and its crew had been made famous as the first European explorers to visit Australia's east coast.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Revolutionary_War">Revolutionary War</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Goat_Island_(Rhode_Island)&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Revolutionary War"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1775, the Fort was renamed Fort Liberty. The British army occupied Newport from 1776 through 1779 and renamed it Fort George during that time. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Post-revolution">Post-revolution</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Goat_Island_(Rhode_Island)&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Post-revolution"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1784 the fort on Goat Island was repaired and renamed Fort Washington after George Washington. In 1794, Newport sold Goat Island to the federal government for $1,500 to maintain a military fort to defend Newport Harbor. The fort was named <a href="/wiki/Fort_Wolcott" title="Fort Wolcott">Fort Wolcott</a> in commemoration of the services of <a href="/wiki/Oliver_Wolcott" title="Oliver Wolcott">Oliver Wolcott</a> who was a General of the Militia and a member of the Continental Congress from Connecticut. In 1824, the first <a href="/wiki/Newport_Harbor_Lighthouse" class="mw-redirect" title="Newport Harbor Lighthouse">Newport Harbor Lighthouse</a> was constructed at the north end of the island. <a href="/wiki/Fort_Wolcott" title="Fort Wolcott">Fort Wolcott</a> was active until 1835 when the garrison was transferred to Florida to fight the Seminole Indians. </p><p>In 1851 the original lighthouse moved to Prudence Island to become <a href="/wiki/Prudence_Island_Light" title="Prudence Island Light">Prudence Island Light</a>, and the current <a href="/wiki/Newport_Harbor_Light" title="Newport Harbor Light">Newport Harbor Light</a> was constructed on a dike near the former lighthouse site. The area surrounding the dike was later filled in when the hotel was constructed much later.<sup id="cite_ref-Goat_Island_Military_History_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Goat_Island_Military_History-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Naval_Torpedo_Station">Naval Torpedo Station</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Goat_Island_(Rhode_Island)&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Naval Torpedo Station"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Goat_Island.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/de/Goat_Island.jpg/220px-Goat_Island.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="65" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/de/Goat_Island.jpg/330px-Goat_Island.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/de/Goat_Island.jpg/440px-Goat_Island.jpg 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="178" /></a><figcaption>C. 1900, picture of U.S. Torpedo Station on Goat Island</figcaption></figure> <p>In 1869 the U.S. Naval Torpedo Station was founded on Goat Island, on the site of the former Army fort. The Station was greatly expanded over the next 100 years and produced many of the Navy's torpedoes through World War I and World War II at the island's Navy Torpedo Factory. One of the Navy's first radio stations was established on the island in 1903. The torpedo station was closed in 1951 and <a href="/wiki/Naval_Undersea_Warfare_Center" title="Naval Undersea Warfare Center">Naval Undersea Warfare Center</a> was created with a facility nearby. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Coast_Guard">Coast Guard</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Goat_Island_(Rhode_Island)&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Coast Guard"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In addition to the Goat Island lighthouse, the <a href="/wiki/Coast_Guard" class="mw-redirect" title="Coast Guard">Coast Guard</a> has maintained a cutter at Goat Island since at least the late 1960s. The <a href="/wiki/Point-class_cutter" title="Point-class cutter">Point-class cutter</a> <a href="/w/index.php?title=USCGC_Point_Turner_(WPB-82365)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="USCGC Point Turner (WPB-82365) (page does not exist)">USCGC <i>Point Turner</i> (WPB-82365)</a> served her entire 31-year career at Goat Island from when she was commissioned on April 14, 1967 until she was decommissioned on April 3 1998. The tradition of having a Coast Guard cutter stationed at Goat Island resumed when the <a href="/wiki/Marine_Protector-class_coastal_patrol_boat" class="mw-redirect" title="Marine Protector-class coastal patrol boat">Marine Protector-class coastal patrol boat</a> <a href="/w/index.php?title=USCGC_Tiger_Shark_(WPB-87359)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="USCGC Tiger Shark (WPB-87359) (page does not exist)">USCGC <i>Tiger Shark</i> (WPB-87359)</a> was commissioned on July 16 2005.<sup id="cite_ref-Goat_Island_Military_History_5-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Goat_Island_Military_History-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Redevelopment">Redevelopment</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Goat_Island_(Rhode_Island)&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Redevelopment"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In the 1960s, Goat Island was sold to a private developer, Globe Manufacturing. Over the next several decades, Globe constructed the Colonial Hilton Hotel (later known as the Sheraton Islander Inn, Islander Doubletree Hotel, the Hyatt Regency, and, as of late, Newport Harbor Island Resort) and Goat Island South Condominiums, and converted the only former navy building remaining on the island into the Goat Island Marina and Marina Bar & Grille. In the 1990s Island Development Corp. (IDC) constructed the "Regatta Club", an event venue. After two <a href="/wiki/Rhode_Island_Supreme_Court" title="Rhode Island Supreme Court">Rhode Island Supreme Court</a> decisions regarding the development, Goat Island South Condominiums took possession of the Regatta Club, leasing it to a third party.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2006, Longwood Venues and Destinations opened Belle Mer, an event space for private functions, spanning 7.5 acres. </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1248256098">@media all and (max-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .mod-gallery{width:100%!important}}.mw-parser-output .mod-gallery{display:table}.mw-parser-output .mod-gallery-default{background:transparent;margin-top:4px}.mw-parser-output .mod-gallery-center{margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto}.mw-parser-output .mod-gallery-left{float:left}.mw-parser-output .mod-gallery-right{float:right}.mw-parser-output .mod-gallery-none{float:none}.mw-parser-output .mod-gallery-collapsible{width:100%}.mw-parser-output .mod-gallery .title,.mw-parser-output .mod-gallery .main,.mw-parser-output .mod-gallery .footer{display:table-row}.mw-parser-output .mod-gallery .title>div{display:table-cell;padding:0 4px 4px;text-align:center;font-weight:bold}.mw-parser-output .mod-gallery .main>div{display:table-cell}.mw-parser-output .mod-gallery .gallery{line-height:1.35em}.mw-parser-output .mod-gallery .footer>div{display:table-cell;padding:4px;text-align:right;font-size:85%;line-height:1em}.mw-parser-output .mod-gallery .title>div *,.mw-parser-output .mod-gallery .footer>div *{overflow:visible}.mw-parser-output .mod-gallery .gallerybox img{background:none!important}.mw-parser-output .mod-gallery .bordered-images .thumb img{border:solid var(--background-color-neutral,#eaecf0)1px}.mw-parser-output .mod-gallery .whitebg .thumb{background:var(--background-color-base,#fff)!important}</style><div class="mod-gallery mod-gallery-default mod-gallery-center"><div class="title"><div>Images of Goat Island</div></div><div class="main"><div><ul class="gallery mw-gallery-traditional nochecker bordered-images whitebg"> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 215px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 210px; height: 170px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Fog_Horn_on_Goat_Island,_Rhode_Island.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Fog horn on Goat Island"><img alt="Fog horn on Goat Island" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ec/Fog_Horn_on_Goat_Island%2C_Rhode_Island.jpg/180px-Fog_Horn_on_Goat_Island%2C_Rhode_Island.jpg" decoding="async" width="180" height="135" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ec/Fog_Horn_on_Goat_Island%2C_Rhode_Island.jpg/270px-Fog_Horn_on_Goat_Island%2C_Rhode_Island.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ec/Fog_Horn_on_Goat_Island%2C_Rhode_Island.jpg/360px-Fog_Horn_on_Goat_Island%2C_Rhode_Island.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2304" data-file-height="1728" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/Fog_horn" class="mw-redirect" title="Fog horn">Fog horn</a> on Goat Island</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 215px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 210px; height: 170px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Hyatt_Hotel_on_Goat_Island,_Rhode_Island.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Hyatt Hotel on Goat Island. Gurney's took over the property in 2016."><img alt="Hyatt Hotel on Goat Island. Gurney's took over the property in 2016." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/da/Hyatt_Hotel_on_Goat_Island%2C_Rhode_Island.jpg/180px-Hyatt_Hotel_on_Goat_Island%2C_Rhode_Island.jpg" decoding="async" width="180" height="135" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/da/Hyatt_Hotel_on_Goat_Island%2C_Rhode_Island.jpg/270px-Hyatt_Hotel_on_Goat_Island%2C_Rhode_Island.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/da/Hyatt_Hotel_on_Goat_Island%2C_Rhode_Island.jpg/360px-Hyatt_Hotel_on_Goat_Island%2C_Rhode_Island.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2304" data-file-height="1728" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Hyatt Hotel on Goat Island. Gurney's took over the property in 2016.</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 215px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 210px; height: 170px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Marina_Bar_and_Grille_on_Goat_Island,_Rhode_Island.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Marina Bar and Grille is located in the only U.S. Navy building remaining on Goat Island"><img alt="Marina Bar and Grille is located in the only U.S. Navy building remaining on Goat Island" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/38/Marina_Bar_and_Grille_on_Goat_Island%2C_Rhode_Island.jpg/180px-Marina_Bar_and_Grille_on_Goat_Island%2C_Rhode_Island.jpg" decoding="async" width="180" height="135" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/38/Marina_Bar_and_Grille_on_Goat_Island%2C_Rhode_Island.jpg/270px-Marina_Bar_and_Grille_on_Goat_Island%2C_Rhode_Island.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/38/Marina_Bar_and_Grille_on_Goat_Island%2C_Rhode_Island.jpg/360px-Marina_Bar_and_Grille_on_Goat_Island%2C_Rhode_Island.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2304" data-file-height="1728" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Marina Bar and Grille is located in the only U.S. Navy building remaining on Goat Island</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 215px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 210px; height: 170px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Condominiums_on_Goat_Island,_Rhode_Island.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Condos on Goat Island, built in 1978 and 1979"><img alt="Condos on Goat Island, built in 1978 and 1979" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a7/Condominiums_on_Goat_Island%2C_Rhode_Island.jpg/180px-Condominiums_on_Goat_Island%2C_Rhode_Island.jpg" decoding="async" width="180" height="135" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a7/Condominiums_on_Goat_Island%2C_Rhode_Island.jpg/270px-Condominiums_on_Goat_Island%2C_Rhode_Island.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a7/Condominiums_on_Goat_Island%2C_Rhode_Island.jpg/360px-Condominiums_on_Goat_Island%2C_Rhode_Island.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2304" data-file-height="1728" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Condos on Goat Island, built in 1978 and 1979</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 215px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 210px; height: 170px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Home_of_Thomas_Rodgers_on_Goat_Island,_Rhode_Island.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Former home of Thomas Rodgers on Goat Island[clarification needed]"><img alt="Former home of Thomas Rodgers on Goat Island[clarification needed]" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0e/Home_of_Thomas_Rodgers_on_Goat_Island%2C_Rhode_Island.jpg/180px-Home_of_Thomas_Rodgers_on_Goat_Island%2C_Rhode_Island.jpg" decoding="async" width="180" height="135" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0e/Home_of_Thomas_Rodgers_on_Goat_Island%2C_Rhode_Island.jpg/270px-Home_of_Thomas_Rodgers_on_Goat_Island%2C_Rhode_Island.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0e/Home_of_Thomas_Rodgers_on_Goat_Island%2C_Rhode_Island.jpg/360px-Home_of_Thomas_Rodgers_on_Goat_Island%2C_Rhode_Island.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2304" data-file-height="1728" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Former home of Thomas Rodgers on Goat Island<sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="margin-left:0.1em; white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Please_clarify" title="Wikipedia:Please clarify"><span title="Thomas S. Rodgers perhaps? No evidence. (January 2015)">clarification needed</span></a></i>]</sup></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 215px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 210px; height: 170px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Harbor_houses_on_Goat_Island,_Rhode_Island.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Harbor Houses on Goat Island"><img alt="Harbor Houses on Goat Island" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c2/Harbor_houses_on_Goat_Island%2C_Rhode_Island.jpg/180px-Harbor_houses_on_Goat_Island%2C_Rhode_Island.jpg" decoding="async" width="180" height="135" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c2/Harbor_houses_on_Goat_Island%2C_Rhode_Island.jpg/270px-Harbor_houses_on_Goat_Island%2C_Rhode_Island.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c2/Harbor_houses_on_Goat_Island%2C_Rhode_Island.jpg/360px-Harbor_houses_on_Goat_Island%2C_Rhode_Island.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2304" data-file-height="1728" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Harbor Houses on Goat Island</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 215px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 210px; height: 170px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Harbor_houses_on_Goat_Island,_Rhode_Island_2.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Harbor Houses on Goat Island"><img alt="Harbor Houses on Goat Island" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9b/Harbor_houses_on_Goat_Island%2C_Rhode_Island_2.jpg/180px-Harbor_houses_on_Goat_Island%2C_Rhode_Island_2.jpg" decoding="async" width="180" height="135" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9b/Harbor_houses_on_Goat_Island%2C_Rhode_Island_2.jpg/270px-Harbor_houses_on_Goat_Island%2C_Rhode_Island_2.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9b/Harbor_houses_on_Goat_Island%2C_Rhode_Island_2.jpg/360px-Harbor_houses_on_Goat_Island%2C_Rhode_Island_2.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2304" data-file-height="1728" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Harbor Houses on Goat Island</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 215px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 210px; height: 170px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Belle_Mer_on_Goat_Island,_Rhode_Island.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Belle Mer"><img alt="Belle Mer" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d7/Belle_Mer_on_Goat_Island%2C_Rhode_Island.jpg/180px-Belle_Mer_on_Goat_Island%2C_Rhode_Island.jpg" decoding="async" width="180" height="135" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d7/Belle_Mer_on_Goat_Island%2C_Rhode_Island.jpg/270px-Belle_Mer_on_Goat_Island%2C_Rhode_Island.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d7/Belle_Mer_on_Goat_Island%2C_Rhode_Island.jpg/360px-Belle_Mer_on_Goat_Island%2C_Rhode_Island.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2304" data-file-height="1728" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Belle Mer</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 215px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 210px; height: 170px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Seawall_on_Goat_Island_in_Newport_Rhode_Island.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Seawall on Goat Island in Newport, Rhode Island"><img alt="Seawall on Goat Island in Newport, Rhode Island" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b6/Seawall_on_Goat_Island_in_Newport_Rhode_Island.jpg/180px-Seawall_on_Goat_Island_in_Newport_Rhode_Island.jpg" decoding="async" width="180" height="135" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b6/Seawall_on_Goat_Island_in_Newport_Rhode_Island.jpg/270px-Seawall_on_Goat_Island_in_Newport_Rhode_Island.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b6/Seawall_on_Goat_Island_in_Newport_Rhode_Island.jpg/360px-Seawall_on_Goat_Island_in_Newport_Rhode_Island.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2304" data-file-height="1728" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/Seawall" title="Seawall">Seawall</a> on Goat Island in Newport, Rhode Island</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 215px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 210px; height: 170px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Newport_from_Goat_Island.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Fort George with colonial era Newport in the background"><img alt="Fort George with colonial era Newport in the background" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d0/Newport_from_Goat_Island.jpg/180px-Newport_from_Goat_Island.jpg" decoding="async" width="180" height="110" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d0/Newport_from_Goat_Island.jpg/270px-Newport_from_Goat_Island.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d0/Newport_from_Goat_Island.jpg/360px-Newport_from_Goat_Island.jpg 2x" data-file-width="617" data-file-height="376" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Fort George with colonial era Newport in the background</div> </li> </ul></div></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Goat_Island_(Rhode_Island)&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><span class="mw-image-border noviewer" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="flag" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f3/Flag_of_Rhode_Island.svg/32px-Flag_of_Rhode_Island.svg.png" decoding="async" width="32" height="28" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f3/Flag_of_Rhode_Island.svg/48px-Flag_of_Rhode_Island.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f3/Flag_of_Rhode_Island.svg/64px-Flag_of_Rhode_Island.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="660" data-file-height="580" /></span></span> </span><a 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a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite class="citation book cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20131228185159/http://www.hyatt.com/hyatt/images/hotels/rinew/HistoryofGoatIsland.pdf"><i>A History of Goat Island, Newport, Rhode Island</i></a> <span class="cs1-format">(PDF)</span>. <a href="/wiki/Hyatt" title="Hyatt">Hyatt Regency</a> Newport. pp. 1–12. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.hyatt.com/hyatt/images/hotels/rinew/HistoryofGoatIsland.pdf">the original</a> <span class="cs1-format">(PDF)</span> on 28 December 2013.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=A+History+of+Goat+Island%2C+Newport%2C+Rhode+Island&rft.pages=1-12&rft.pub=Hyatt+Regency+Newport&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.hyatt.com%2Fhyatt%2Fimages%2Fhotels%2Frinew%2FHistoryofGoatIsland.pdf&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AGoat+Island+%28Rhode+Island%29" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-providenceri.com-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-providenceri.com_2-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-providenceri.com_2-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Denlson, Frederic; Redi, J. A.; and Reid, R. A.; <i>Narransett Sea and Shore</i>, Providence, RI, 1879; and Seavey, George L.; <i>Rhode Island's Coastal Natural Areas</i> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100410195620/http://providenceri.com/NarragansettBay/the_islands.html">"The Islands"</a>. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.providenceri.com/NarragansettBay/the_islands.html">the original</a> on 2010-04-10<span class="reference-accessdate">. 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