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
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’
“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
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
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...