Great Creek
Great Creek is a stream in Newport County, Rhode Island. Great Creek is situated nearby to the neighborhood Jamestown Shores, as well as near Plum Beach.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Jamestown Museum and Friends Meetinghouse.
Jamestown Museum
Museum
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Jamestown Museum is a local history museum which tells the history of Jamestown, Rhode Island and is run by the Jamestown Historical Society. The Jamestown Historical Society founded the museum in the current building in 1971.
Friends Meetinghouse
Church
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The Conanicut Friends Meetinghouse is a historic Quaker meeting house at the junction of North Road and Weeden Lane in Jamestown, Rhode Island. The structure was built in 1786 to replace the original meeting house destroyed by the British after they occupied Conanicut Island in 1776.
Jamestown Windmill
Windmill
The Jamestown Windmill is a smock mill in Jamestown, Rhode Island within the Windmill Hill Historic District on North Road north of Weeden Lane. The 30-foot high windmill was built in 1787 to coarse grind flint corn to feed to animals and finer corn meal for farmer families to eat.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Jamestown and Saunderstown.
Jamestown
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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.
Saunderstown
Village
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Saunderstown is a small village and historic district spread across the four towns of Narragansett, South Kingstown, Exeter and North Kingstown in Washington County, Rhode Island, United States. Saunderstown is situated 2½ miles west of Great Creek.
Newport
Newport is a beautiful seaside city in Rhode Island that is famous for its genteel mansions and a rich history of yachting, golf, and tennis. With a population of only 25,000, this scenic resort town punches well above its weight and was known as the "Summer White House" throughout the 1950s and 60s.
Great Creek
- Type: Stream
- Also known as: “West Passage”
- Category: body of water
- Location: Newport County, Rhode Island, New England, United States, North America
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Latitude
41.50566° or 41° 30′ 20″ northLongitude
-71.37894° or 71° 22′ 44″ westElevation
3 feet (1 metre)Open location code
87HCGJ4C+7CGeoNames ID
5222433
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