Newport Tower (Rhode Island)

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The Newport Tower, also known as the Old Stone Mill, is a round stone tower located in Touro Park in Newport, Rhode Island. Other names given to the tower include Round Tower, Touro Tower, Viking Tower, and Newport Stone Tower. The structure is about 28 feet tall and 22 to 23 feet across. It is believed to most likely be remains of a windmill built in the mid-17th century. Carbon-14 testing of mortar in the tower indicates a date in the 1600s, making it one of the oldest buildings in the continental United States. The tower has also received attention due to speculation it is actually several centuries older, and evidence of pre-Columbian trans-oceanic contact. But these ideas have little or no support among mainstream scholars.

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