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Bristol, Rhode Island
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Bristol is famous for its Fourth of July parade, the longest-standing Independence Day parade in the US. Its 23,000 citizens claim to be the most patriotic in the world.
Bristol includes the village of Bristol Highlands.
Of special note is the Coggeshall Farm museum, Colt State Park, the Bristol Ferry lighthouse, the Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology, the Blytheworld Mansion, the East Bay Bike Path, Roger Williams University, the Herreshoff Marine Museum, and Mount Hope.
The town has several B&B's. If you're hungy, you should check out the Hope diner, the Lobster Pot, or the Basically British Tea Room.
To get to Bristol, Exit 2 in Massachusetts south on 136 about 4 miles. 136 joins 114 just before the Mount Hope Bridge, so if you cross a suspension bridge, you've gone too far.
Bristol's comprehensive website is www.onlinebristol.com
An experience to cherish
Point Pleasant Inn
Enjoy life as it was as you stroll through the 33-room mansion along granite and teak floors. Get lost in one of the many books left over from the Rockwell era. Read by the fire in the lovely library or enjoy the wrap around water view from the Grand Gallery. All guest suites offer luxurious accommodations, spectacular water and garden views. Check in for a holiday that you will never forget, complete with signature amenities, Italian linens, down comforters and fireplaces in Bristol Harbour suite and all public rooms. An English country manor house from another era, Point Pleasant Inn offers a rare look of life from the pages of romance novels. |
| 333 Poppasquash Road Bristol, RI MAP
Phone: 401/253-0627 http://www.pointpleasantinn.com
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Luxurious, all-inclusive resort setting
Point Pleasant Inn
Enjoy life as it was as you stroll through the 33-room mansion along granite and teak floors. Get lost in one of the many books left over from the Rockwell era. Read by the fire in the lovely library or enjoy the wrap around water view from the Grand Gallery. All guest suites offer luxurious accommodations, spectacular water and garden views. Check in for a holiday that you will never forget, complete with signature amenities, Italian linens, down comforters and fireplaces in Bristol Harbour suite and all public rooms. An English country manor house from another era, Point Pleasant Inn offers a rare look of life from the pages of romance novels. |
| 333 Poppasquash Road Bristol, RI MAP
Phone: 401/253-0627 http://www.pointpleasantinn.com
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Blithewold Mansion and Gardens
Blithewold is a 33 acre estate in Bristol, Rhode Island - a spectacular property with lawns and gardens sweeping down to Narragansett Bay. It was established in the 1890's by Augustus and Bessie VanWickle as their summer retreat. Augustus VanWickle was from Hazleton, Pennsylvania, where his family was in the coal-mining business. He attended Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, and came to love the Ocean State. In 1895 he impulsively purchased a 72' steam yacht from the Herreshoff boat-building company in Bristol, and immediately began the search for a suitable property to build a summer home for his family. Bessie VanWickle was a very accomplished horticulturist, and her heart's desire was to have enough good land to establish gardens and an arboretum. |
| 101 Ferry Road Bristol, RI 02809 MAP
Phone: 401/253-2707 http://www.blithewold.org
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