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If you’ve walked through Washington Square, you’ve passed One Courthouse Square. Today it’s offices. Yesterday it was bus tickets and gas pumps. Long before that, it was water — the freshwater spring that helped launch Newport. Newport’s original town spring sat right here, the namesake for Spring Street and a lifeline for early settlement. The land itself may first have belonged to Newport founder John Coggeshall. By the 1600s, his son Joshua Coggeshall (1623–1689) is recorded as the earliest known owner. For the next 200 years, the property was domestic in nature, passing through generations of Newport’s founding families. Two of the most prominent owners were the Marchants — including Henry Marchant, a Continental Congressman and judge. In 1797, the land was recorded again in the estate of Peleg Barker, described in the deed as “the same lane where the town spring is.” Even in legal documents, the spring remained the defining feature. By the mid-19th century, a branch of the Hazard family had opened a livery stable here. For nearly a century, stables and horse-drawn traffic defined the lot, right up until the 1930s. It was around this same period that Henry Bull IV noted in his Memoir of Rhode Island (1832) that the spring had been “covered by the erection of a stable on the land of the heirs of Edward Hazard.” Even then, history was being layered over history. In the early 20th century, horses gave way to horsepower. The Short Line Bus Station opened in a sturdy brick building, becoming Newport’s travel hub. That building still stands today, converted into offices. As cars overtook buses, the adjacent lot shifted again — this time to a gas station. By the 1940s, Colonial Beacon Oil Company ran the pumps and installed a plaque marking the town spring. Later owners kept the gas flowing under different brands, most famously as Coffey’s Texaco, which served Newport drivers until 2015. The old station was demolished in 2019 to make way for a new chapter. In June 2024, Newport officially opened Spring Park, a public space dedicated to the spring that nurtured the city’s founders. 📸🎥✍️@scarletalbrecht #NewportRI #newportbuzz
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