Jamestown Town Hall
Narragansett Ave, Jamestown, RI
Jamestown Library
26 North Road, Jamestown, RI
Windmill
North Road near Weeden Lane
Conanicut Battery
Battery Lane
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Places to Visit
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Current Exhibits
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Map of Historic Places
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From our Online Catalog
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Jamestown Inherited Two Thanksgiving Traditions
Thanksgiving is a time to gather and feast with family and friends while pondering past blessings, and archives of the Jamestown Historical Society reveal many of these such good fortunes. A worn document titled “Thanksgiving at the Homestead” chronicles the holiday...
2021 Fall Newsletter
Our Fall 2021 Newsletter is now available for download. Don't miss the committee reports of all the things that we've been working on while at home. And take a look at the donations that made over the past year, we value everyone's efforts to keep Jamestown history...
Library Exhibit, October 2021: Boxes and What They Hold
The JHS library exhibit for November displays a collection of boxes designed for many different uses. A tiny round ceramic snuff box used in the 19th century contained powdered tobacco. A pinch sniffed from the back of the hand would give an instant nicotine rush. A...
From the Collection – Conanicut Battery
In May of 1776, the Americans hastily built an earthwork battery in a large field on the west side of the Beavertail peninsula on Conanicut Island. British diarist Frederick Mackenzie later described the fortification as a “Battery or Redoubt with 4 embrasures” facing...