by JHS | Mar 21, 2017 | Library Exhibits
The Great Creek and the salt marshes on either side of it separate the north end of Conanicut Island from the village. In 1950, the Jamestown Garden Club recognized the value of the marshes to the environmental health of the island and initiated a project to save...
by JHS | Feb 16, 2017 | Library Exhibits
The North Farm included 360 acres “bounded on the west, north and east by seas or salt water and the south by highway.” It encompassed all the land north of a line across the island from approximately the current Broad Street on the east to Wickford Avenue...
by JHS | Jan 7, 2017 | Library Exhibits
The new Lawn School Exhibit is all about transportation in Jamestown starting with the Sail Ferries that plied the waters from 1675 to 1969. They were supplemented by the first steam ferries in 1873 on the East Passage and 1888 on the West Passage. There is a...
by JHS | Dec 29, 2016 | Library Exhibits
Some of the acquisitions and donations to JHS during 2016 are displayed in the new library exhibit. It includes a photo of the painting “Crossing the Great Creek” by J.A.S. Monks donated by Thayer Hutchinson and the Hutchinson family. There is a copy...
by JHS | Nov 29, 2016 | Library Exhibits
Library Exhibit: Holiday Greetings from Meredith & Clarke Meredith & Clarke, Inc. was founded in 1924 by Leroy F. Meredith and Archibald Clarke. The business stayed in the Clarke family for four generations. In 1946 Meredith sold his share to Archibald’s...
by JHS | Nov 1, 2016 | Library Exhibits
Our November exhibit in the Jamestown Philomenian Library celebrates sites in Jamestown that are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. More than 90,000 properties – buildings, sites, districts, structures, and objects – are listed in the National...