The JHS library exhibit for February displays some of the smaller signs and plaques from the Jamestown Historical Society’s collection of signs. Many of the larger ones are on permanent display in the town’s Recreation Center lobby and the back stairwell of Town Hall.
A shield shaped plaque from a stone wall identifies the wall as the work of the Work Projects Administration (WPA). The WPA employed millions of jobseekers to carry out public works projects during the Great Depression. In Jamestown, they built the seawall at East Ferry and the retaining wall along High Street near Walcott as well as other similar projects.
The signs will remain on display in the Jamestown Philomenian Library foyer until the beginning of March.