Tours
Notable people from the Gilded Age to modern times are at rest in Island Cemetery’s picturesque landscape. Guided tours will be presented on Saturday mornings at 10:00am starting in April and running through November of 2026. You are welcome to stroll our site or take a tour with one of our guides!
Hear about important people and monuments and visit inside the Belmont Chapel presented by Island Cemetery staff.
Guided Tours -$15 per person
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Notable people from the Gilded Age to modern times are at rest in Island Cemetery’s picturesque landscape.
Stroll our site or take a tour!
Guided Tours -$15 per person
Hear about important people and monuments and visit inside the Belmont Chapel.
Oliver Hazard Perry Lecture and Tour
Sunday, August 23, 2026 @ 4:00 p.m.
Oliver Hazard Perry was an important Naval officer whose heroic actions helped the United Sates win the War of 1812. The Perrys were the county’s most important naval family with deep Rhode Island and Newport connections. The event will start in the Belmont chapel with a lecture about Perry and his career. At the conclusion of the lecture his gravesite and those of family members will be visited.