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    Newport Tower: Unsettled History
    Newport Tower: Unsettled History
    Newport Tower: Unsettled History
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    Newport Tower: Unsettled History

    By B. Lynn Brant

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    The Newport Tower is a crude, round stone structure in Newport, Rhode Island. It is said that it was built by early colonists, as a windmill. However, there is little evidence to support that claim, and a wealth of evidence indicating that it is of much older construction, probably precolumbian.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherB. Lynn Brant
    Release dateApr 6, 2013
    ISBN9781301990559
    Newport Tower: Unsettled History
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    B. Lynn Brant

    I'm an economist by training, but have long had two avocations - the training and companionship of dogs, and amateur archaeology, particularly the evidence (and hoaxes) of pre-Columbian exploration of North America.

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      Newport Tower - B. Lynn Brant

      Newport Tower

      Unsettled History

      B. Lynn Brant

      © 2013 all rights reserved

      Newport Tower

      Unsettled History

      Copyright © 2013 by B. Lynn Brant

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      Table of Contents

      Unsettled History

      Archeology

      Architecture

      Colonial Theory

      Conclusions

      Unsettled History

      The purpose of these pages, is to present the evidence and logic for why the Newport Tower cannot possibly have been built from the ground, as a colonial windmill in 1675. The claim that Benedict Arnold (grandfather of the revolutionary period traitor), who was the new head of the fledgling pioneer community of Newport, built the tower as a windmill has been under dispute for over 200 years. The adherents to this theory are known as the Arnoldists. They hold sway in the popular culture of the moment, but have not in the past, and may not in the future. The foundation argument of the Arnoldists, since at least the early 19th century when the tower had already long been in ruins, has been that the Indians could not have built it, and there was no-one here before 1635, so Arnold must have built it in 1675. There are three bits of evidence the Arnoldists use to support their theory, none of which can withstand examination. Each of them will be detailed in later sections. Meanwhile, there is a wealth of evidence that the tower stood long before the colonials arrived, that it could never have functioned well as a windmill, and that its architecture is entirely consistent with a much older structure.

      What we will offer the reader is a guided tour through the history of the dispute - through the archeology, the architecture and finally, the logic of whether or not this structure could have, and would have, been built by 17th century colonials. We are not unbiased and we will not pretend to be. There has been so much bias brought to bear in favor of the colonial theory over the last 150 years that the only way to provide the present day inquirer with any measure of balance is to unabashedly present the case against a colonial origin for the tower. We trust that the reader will draw his own conclusions.

      This section will include the tower’s basic description and an overview of major studies done so far. Archeology will examine in depth the various digs done over the years and the carbon dating of materials. Architecture will cover how the tower was built, what it took to build it, comparable structures around the world, and its suitability to function as a windmill. Colonial Theory will discuss the social and economic reality of Newport in 1675, documentary and cartographic evidence regarding the tower, and the lack of evidence that it was successfully used as a windmill. Conclusions will invite the reader to consider the totality of what must be accepted as fact, in order to believe that the Newport Tower was built by colonials.

      Location and Physical Description

      Newport is located at the mouth of Narragansett Bay, about 60 miles southwest of Cape Cod. The Newport Tower is in a small city park. It stands about 26 feet tall and

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