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Library Exhibit – February 2018: Black History Month
Over 15 percent of Colonial Jamestowners were Black slaves. Through the hard economic times after the American Revolution, few Blacks remained.
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Town’s black population has ebbed, flowed
Colonial Jamestown had the largest black population, by percentage, of any community in the state. According to a 1706 census, 15 percent of townspeople were black, although none were land owners.
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Library Exhibit – January 2018: Donations: December 2016 – November 2017
The January Jamestown Historical Society exhibit in the Jamestown Philomenian Library celebrates the more that 200 additions to the JHS collections received from 93 different individuals and groups between December 2016 and December 2017.
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Members Only Tour of Touro Synagogue – Jan 2018
The Members Only Tour of Touro Synagogue was wonderful. We learned so much about Touro’s role in religious freedom.
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Library Exhibit – December 2017: Ornaments & Holiday Cards
The new Jamestown Historical Society exhibit in the Jamestown Philomenian Library celebrates with a display of Christmas ornaments with a Jamestown theme and more than 20 years of holiday greeting cards from Conanicus Marine Services.
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Members Only Tour of the Newport Opera House – Nov 2017
The Members Only Tour of the Opera House was a very interesting peak at great things to come.
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2017 Fall Newsletter
Our Fall Newsletter is now available for download. See all the great things our members accomplished. Don’t miss the letter from our president Mary Heath and all of the committee reports.
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Library Exhibit – November 2017: To honor those who serve
Jamestown men and women have served gallantly in every American war since the founding of the colony. On Veterans Day, we honor them all.
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Library Exhibit – October 2017: 25th Anniversary – Jamestown -Verrazzano Bridge
25th Anniversary of the Jamestown-Verrazzano Bridge On Saturday, October 17, 1992, about 40,000 people ran, walked, or strolled across the newly opened 7,350-foot-long Jamestown-Verrazzano Bridge.
