Liberty Island states. The oyster beds would remain a major source of food for nearly three centuries. Landfilling, started by the 1870s, particularly by the Lehigh Valley Railroad and Central Railroad of New Jersey, eventually obliterated the beds, engulfed one island and brought the shoreline much closer to the others. After the surrender of Fort Amsterdam by the Dutch to the British in 1664, the English governor Richard Nicolls granted the island to Captain Robert Needham. It was sold to Isaac Bedloe on December 23, 1667. The island was retained by his estate until 1732 when it was sold for five shillings
S. Stephen's Church (Providence, Rhode Island) S. Stephen's Church (Providence, Rhode Island) S. Stephen's Church is an historic Episcopal church located at 114 George Street in the College Hill neighborhood of Providence, Rhode Island. Located in the midst of the Brown University campus, it is an active parish in the Episcopal Diocese of Rhode Island, with a strong Anglo-Catholic identity. The church building, a large stone Gothic Revival structure, was designed by Richard Upjohn and built in 1860-62. In 1889 the congregation received a major bequest from Henry J. Steere, a prominent philanthropist and industrialist. The church building was listed on the U.S. National Register of