Green’s End is a historic village and populated area in Middletown, Rhode Island

Middletown, Rhode Island

Middletown is a town in Newport County, Rhode Island, United States. The population was 16,150 at the 2010 census. It lies to the south of Portsmouth and to the north of Newport on Aquidneck Island, hence the name "Middletown."-Geography:...

. Witherbee School

Witherbee School

The Witherbee School is a school house in Middletown, Rhode Island on Green End Avenue.The one-room wooden school house was one of five in Middletown in 1900. It closed in the 1940s, and now is run by the Middletown Historical Society as an educational center...

 (1900) is located in the area.

History

Around 1650 the state fruit, the Rhode Island Greening

Rhode Island Greening

]]The Rhode Island Greening is an old, historic American apple variety and the official fruit of the state of Rhode Island.-History:The Rhode Island Greening allegedly originated around 1650 near Green’s End in Newport, Rhode Island . The first Greenings were allegedly grown by a Mr. Green who...

was developed in Green's End by Mr. Green, a local tavern owner who operated Green's Inn. Greening would grow and give grafts of the Rhode Island Greening to passersby. During the American Revolution in 1777, the British troops occupying Newport built Green End Fort as the eastern terminus of their military operations in the area. Only a small grassy berm remains. Green's End is also the name of the main road in the area and a large body of water. The Rhode Island Greening was one of the most popular apples grown in New York in the nineteenth century.