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Rhode Tours: Jamestown Forts
Rhode Tour is a smartphone app and website that uses text, sound, and images to bring Rhode Island stories to the palm of your hand.
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Jamestown in the Resort Era
The Resort Era is celebrated in a permanent exhibit in the back stairwell of the Jamestown Town Hall.
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History of the Jamestown Town Hall
The first Town Hall was built on the site of the current Town Hall in 1883.
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2023 Fall Newsletter
Our Fall Newsletter is now available for download. This spring and summer were very busy as the JHS offered talks, outings, exhibits, events, and gatherings.
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Jamestown Signs
Hanging on a side wall of the JHS Vault is a collection of Jamestown signs from island merchants that have closed in years past.
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Saunderstown man picks fight with ferries
Stillman Saunders on the beach at his boatbuilding facility in Saunderstown, circa 1905. Unhappy with the ferry service across the West Passage, he launched a rival company in 1906 to compete with the Jamestown & Newport Ferry Company.
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2023 Volunteer Party
This year’s Volunteer Party was held at the JAC to thank our many volunteers for their hard work.
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Edward Mitchell Bannister 1828 – 1901
The Providence Art Club recently mounted a tribute to commemorate the life and work of one of their original founders, the Black artist Edward Mitchell Bannister. Bannister, born in New Brunswick, immigrated to Boston in about 1848.
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‘America’s most natural’ golf course
Audley Clarke, born in 1862 in Staten Island, N.Y., had Newport and Jamestown roots. His ancestor Jeremiah Clarke (1605– 52) was one of the founders of Newport and an early governor of Rhode Island.
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