Newport's entrepreneurial energy

“‘By 1760 Newport was humming with industry. As one old history states, “Newport was not the headquarters for piracy, sugar, smuggling, rum, molasses and slaves.’’’. But time had worked wonders. There is very little molasses or sugar used there now.’’

— Will M. Cressey, in The History of Rhode Island, published in the 1920’s

Newport in 1818