Library Exhibit March 2017: Salt Marsh

Library Exhibit March 2017: Salt Marsh

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...
Library Exhibit: Jamestown’s North Farm- Feb 2017

Library Exhibit: Jamestown’s North Farm- Feb 2017

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...
Lawn School Exhibit: Transportation – Jan 2017

Lawn School Exhibit: Transportation – Jan 2017

  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...