| Project Description |
Fort Adams is an early 19th-century US Army fort that in the 20th century sponsored a shipyard to repair and service the vessels that supported the troops stationed there. The shipyard included a marine railway used to draw out of the water craft as long as 100’ and after repair to return them to active service. The marine railway was built before the Korean War by Newport’s Crandall Shipyard, known in the 19th-century for building ocean going vessels. That business is now a major marine engineering firm located in Boston, and the original construction documents are still housed in the firm’s archives. RIMAP field teams compared the railway’s current structural details with the original marine railway specifications and has documented the continuing site disturbance by natural and human causes.
On the advice of the SHPO (State Historic Preservation Office) coordinates are redacted. |
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