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Birthplace of Commodore Matthew Calbraith

Birthplace of Commodore Matthew Calbraith is a Rhode Island historical marker in Newport County, dedicated 1936.

Newport · location approximate

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Birthplace of Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry, who opened the ports of Japan to the world, 1854.

1937 text, presented as a historical document.

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Digital Commonwealth, Boston Public Library

Historical maps covering this location

1824 · Rhode Island. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1831 · Rhode Island. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1838 · Rhode Island. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1860 · Road map of the island of Rhode Island, or Aquidneck (Digital Commonwealth, Boston Public Library)
1876 · Outline and Index Map of Newport, Rhode Island. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

Rhode Island, 1838, covering the location of Birthplace of Commodore Matthew Calbraith, with a pin at the marker's coordinates — Rhode Island, 1838, covering this location. David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries. The pin is ours and the location is approximate.

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Marker data: Rhode Island Tercentenary Commission, Rhode Island Tercentenary 1636-1936: A Report (1937)

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