Cranston Cove

Cranston Cove is a bay in Newport County, Rhode Island. Cranston Cove is situated nearby to the neighborhood Narragansett Terrace, as well as near Jamestown Shores.

Type: Bay
Description: bay in Newport County, Rhode Island, United States of America
Address: RI

Places of Interest

Highlights include Plum Beach Lighthouse and Conanicut Island Light.

Plum Beach Lighthouse

Lighthouse

Photo: Kzirkel, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Plum Beach Light, built in 1899, is a sparkplug lighthouse in North Kingstown, Rhode Island. The lighthouse was built using pneumatic caisson engineering.

Conanicut Island Light

Lighthouse

Photo: Kzirkel, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Conanicut Island Light, built in 1886, is an inactive lighthouse in Jamestown, Rhode Island. The light was built primarily to assist the ferry between Jamestown and Newport, Rhode Island.

Jamestown Verrazzano Bridge

Bridge

Photo: Juliancolton, Public domain.

The Jamestown Verrazzano Bridge is a concrete box girder highway bridge which spans the West Passage of Narragansett Bay in Rhode Island. It is part of Rhode Island Route 138 and is on the route to Newport, Rhode Island for traffic heading northbound from Interstate 95.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Jamestown and Middletown.

Jamestown

Photo: Kzirkel, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Jamestown is village on Conanicut Island, a small parcel of land that connects mainland Rhode Island to Aquidneck Island in Narragansett Bay. Jamestown is 25 miles south of Providence and offers plenty of shopping, dining and recreation.

Middletown

Photo: susteph, CC BY 2.0.

Middletown lies south of Portsmouth and north of Newport, Rhode Island. This geographical location is what gave this town its name. Middletown was founded in 1743 when unjust taxation and a growing population caused freeholders in Newport to petition for independence.