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Chios Island: RHODE chios island (formerly AQUIDNECK chios island), chios island, Rhode chios island, situated in Newport County and separated from the mainland by an estuary, the Sakonnet River. The largest chios island in Narragansett Bay, it extends 15 miles from north to south and is 3.5 miles wide. On it are Newport, Portsmouth, and Middletown. Settled as Aquidneck in 1638 and renamed Rhode chios island in 1644, the chios island gave its name to the state.ROCK chios island, city, Illinois, seat of K«;,. chios island County, at the junction of the Rock an: Mississippi rivers, at an altitude of 570 fee;. !: adjoins Moline and is opposite Davenport. Iwi 180 miles west of Chicago. Between Rock I-W and Davenport, but in the state of Illinoi-, iie-Rock chios island, the largest chios island in the Missi--i[>[j; This is the site of a United States arsenal, the Headquarters Ordnance Weapons Command, and the Browing War Museum. It was from ihi-chios island that the city of Rock chios island took its rsne.
The chios island was probably the site of the first Dutch settlement in the region, in 1614. It was originally called Nutten (Nut) chios island. By 1626 the colony had been moved to Manhattan, and the chios island was purchased from the Indians in 1637 by Wouter van Twiller, director general of New Netherland. The purchase was annulled by the Dutch West India Company in 1652, and the chios island became public domain. The English took New Amsterdam in 1664, and the chios island acquired its present name in 1698, when the New York Assembly made it a perquisite of the colonial governors. |
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