Jerusalem is a fishing village within the town of Narragansett, Rhode Island

Narragansett, Rhode Island

Narragansett is a town in Washington County, Rhode Island, United States. The population was 15,868 at the 2010 census, but there is a greater population in the summer. The nickname for the town is "Gansett". The town of Narragansett occupies a narrow strip of land running along the eastern bank...

 on Point Judith

Point Judith

Point Judith is a village and a small cape, on the coast of Narragansett, Rhode Island, on the western side of Narragansett Bay where it opens out onto Rhode Island Sound....

. It is across the harbor from Galilee, Rhode Island

Galilee, Rhode Island

Galilee is a fishing village within the town of Narragansett, Rhode Island on Point Judith. It is across the harbor from Jerusalem, Rhode Island...

. It is named after the Biblical city of Jerusalem in Israel

Israel

The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...

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History

The town received its name "[i]n 1902, the story goes, Thomas Mann a fisherman from Nova Scotia who had settled here ,felt the village that had sprung up with its fishing shacks should be called Galilee, after the fishing village of biblical times. One day, an old timer sat on the docks repairing his nets when a stranger called out to him, "Where am I". The answer was "Galilee". "And what is that?" the stranger asked pointing to the other side of the channel. The old timer thought for a minute, nodded his head and replied, "must be Jerusalem". And so the name of Galilee and Jerusalem have been used since to denote a most picturesque part of Rhode Island."