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Library Exhibit, Aug 2021 From the JHS Collection 1912-1925
The August exhibit in the JHS library display case features early gifts to the Jamestown Historical Society’s collection and the people who gave them.
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2021 Preview Party – And Farm Tour
Because of restraints of the COVID pandemic, this year’s members fundraiser was a combination of a cocktail party held on August 26 at the lovely 1927 Sarah Cresswell cottage, which had been recently restored and beautifully landscaped, and guided tours of three of Jamestown’s farms.
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Collecting and Sharing Jamestown History
In the summer of 1912, Elizabeth Carr Locke, a California-based descendant of Caleb Carr who was in Jamestown for the summer, had 200 posters printed and distributed around the island asking anybody interested in forming a historical society to meet at Town Hall on August 19.
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Jamestown Historical Society 2021 Annual Meeting
The guest speaker for the Jamestown Historical Society’s 2021 annual meeting was Anne Tait, MFA, Professor of Art at Roger Williams University. Her presentation was titled “Art in the Cemetery, Changing Fashion of Grave Markers.
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From the Collection – Jamestown Shores
In the early 1940s, when you drove east over the recently completed Jamestown Bridge, the land before you was open farmland.
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Library Exhibit, July 2021 Commemorative Plates
The July exhibit in the JHS library display case features commemorative plates from the society’s collection.
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From the Collection – Pill Box From Hunt’s Drug Store
Hunt’s Drug Store stood at the corner of Conanicus and Narragansett avenues where the East Ferry Deli is now.
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JHS Members Outing Blue Garden
Members of the Jamestown Historical Society toured the Blue Garden in Newport on Thursday, July 8. The garden was created in 1913 by Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Curtiss James using the Olmsted Brothers firm. The garden gradually deteriorated to ruin, its restoration begun in 2012 by Mrs. Dorrance Hamilton.
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Remembering the Ferries and Their Captains
On May 12, 1873, Captain Stephen C. Gardner guided the 79-foot, wood-fueled paddlewheel ferry Jamestown out of the new slip at East Ferry on her maiden voyage between Jamestown and Newport. The age of dependable steam ferry service on the lower Narragansett Bay had begun.
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Summer Exhibit 2021 – The Art of Jamestown
The exhibit art can be examined in detail on the touchscreen display in the museum as well.
