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Herreshoff Marine Museum
1 Burnside Street, Bristol, RI
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In 1971, A. Sidney DeWolf Herreshoff and Rebecca Chase Herreshoff founded the Herreshoff Marine Museum to preserve and perpetuate the legacy and accomplishments of the Herreshoff Manufacturing Company and its founders, John Brown Herreshoff and Nathanael Greene Herreshoff. Today the campus includes a large museum facility, the old family homestead, six former company buildings, and a large portion of the company's waterfront with a marina. As a result of more than fifty years of careful acquisition, documentation, and restoration, the Museum boasts over seventy significant boats, ranging from the 8½' dinghy, NATHANAEL to the 75' DEFIANT, built in 1992 for the successful defense of the America's Cup.
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