Coasters Harbor Island

Island in Newport County, Rhode Island, United States From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

41°30′33.65″N 71°19′38.19″W

Aerial photograph of Coasters Harbor Island, 1941
The Naval War College. The original Newport Asylum building can be seen on the far right, now housing the Naval War College Museum. The larger building on the left is Luce Hall.

Coasters Harbor Island is a 92-acre (370,000 m2) island in Narragansett Bay, Newport, Rhode Island. The island is home to the Naval War College (NWC), an education and research institution of the United States Navy that specializes in developing ideas for naval warfare and passing them along to officers of the Navy.

History

Rhode Island colonists purchased Coasters Island from the Narragansett Indians in 1654. The town of Newport built the Newport Asylum for the Poor there in 1822, and the Newport Poor House and Farm was located there until the State of Rhode Island donated the island to the U.S. Navy in 1882. The Navy still uses it as a training center, and it is home to the Naval War College and Naval War College Museum.

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