Jamestown Town Hall

Narragansett Ave, Jamestown, RI

Jamestown Library

26 North Road, Jamestown, RI

Windmill

North Road near Weeden Lane

Conanicut Battery

Battery Lane

Black History in Jamestown


Learn about the rich history of Jamestown’s Black community.

Places to Visit


See Jamestown’s historic sites and learn its history through its artifacts

Current Exhibits


Learn about this summer’s museum exhibit and other displays around town

Map of Historic Places


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From our Online Catalog


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Connie Armbrust

Connie Armbrust

Click on the images below to see them in our Online Catalog. Jamestown is a haven for writers and artists, and one of our treasures was Constance Armbrust, known to everyone as “Connie.” Connie was born November 7, 1907, to Archie and Emily Dearborn Warren in Concord,...

Revolutionary War took toll on town’s ‘rural character’

Revolutionary War took toll on town’s ‘rural character’

“Sheep in an Orchard on Conanicut” by John Austin Sands Monk. More sheep roamed Jamestownbefore the Revolutionary War than after it. Gershom Remington, for example, had 28 sheep in1773. By 1783, they were all gone.A decade ago, residents declared the overarching goal...

Harbor View

Harbor View

Click on the images below to see them in our Online Catalog. In 1887, Captain Abbott Chandler, who ran a small boat business, renting rowboats and sailboats from his floating pier south of the East Ferry wharf, hired Charles Bevins to build a boardinghouse for seamen...

137-Year Transformation from Boardinghouse to Condos

137-Year Transformation from Boardinghouse to Condos

Chandler House, later Harbor View, about 1900. From a glass negative. Abbott Chandler, a 30-year-old merchant mariner who had made nine voyages around South America to the Pacific Ocean, arrived in Jamestown about 1880. He began a business renting rowboats and...