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Column: Who really built Newport's old tower?

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By David Brussat    Email

Old postcard of Touro Park's tower, circa 1900, in Newport * * * Another postcard, of romantic tower in ivy * * * Jim Egan's Newport Tower Museum, est. 2010, near the tower in Touro Park * * *......

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Coming up: Now the truth about the Newport tower?

egantower.jpg 8:04 PM Tue, May 31, 2011 | | Comments (1)
By David Brussat    Email

Can't really say. Jim Egan, who runs the Newport Tower Museum, on Mill Street across from the tower in Touro Park, has studied the origins of the tower that has variously been attributed to the Vikings, the Knights Templar,......

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