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This cemetery contains the crew of the U.S.S. Bennington CVA-20, an aircraft carrier that had served in World War II and the Korean War. An explosion occurred on the Bennington in 1954 when the boat was stationed in Narragansett Bay, and over a hundred sailors died in the incident. A memorial was erected by the ship’s reunion association in their honor in 2004.
An unrelated nearby burial site belonged to Rhode Island colonial governor William Brenton and some of his family who lived during the 17th century when the colony was first formed.