Fun facts about the NAME of the island!
Manisses, was the first known name by the indians which means "Little God" or "Little God's Island".
Claudia secondly, from Verrazano the explorer in 1524 in honor of the mother of King Francis' I.
Soon after 1614 it was "Adrians Eyland" on Dutch maps....finally to become virtually the same name of Block Island in 1876.
Adrian Block, a Dutch Explorer and trader came upon her shores and in 1614 and decided to name the isalnd after himself.....I would have too.....It would have been "Mulshine Island" LOL.
New Shoreham came later, in 1672, when the island received its town charter from the state of Rhode Island.
The shores of the the New World were here associated with those of the Old, the final syllable, "ham", signifying a house, or farm, or village, had reference too "many parts" of names that terminate with ham.
Alrighty than....have a good night all!
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