by Stephanie Amerigian | Sep 15, 2020 | From the Collection
On October 18, 1930, almost a year after the Great Depression started with the stock market crash on Black Friday, many Jamestowners received a bounty from the sea. Two barges filled with coal, the Henry Howard and the Howard Sisters drifted onto the rocks at... 
by Stephanie Amerigian | Aug 12, 2020 | From the Collection
Dog tax #1 was first issued to Dr. John Marshall, Dean of the University of Pennsylvania Medical School, who summered in Jamestown. According to his great grandson, Dr. Marshall, because of his position, was one of the first in Jamestown to request a... 
by Stephanie Amerigian | Aug 12, 2020 | From the Collection
Mackerel Cove, Jamestown’s Town Beach, was popular as early as 1890 when L. W. Barringer of Philadelphia proposed to the Town Council the building of a pavilion and bath houses on the site. That project did not come to fruition but in 1925 a Special Town... 
by Stephanie Amerigian | May 13, 2020 | From the Collection
Last fall we launched a new landing page for our Online Collection that highlighted certain categories for searching. One of the new categories we wanted to create was the subject of Film. Efforts to create digital versions of VHS, DVD and early films for... 
by Stephanie Amerigian | Apr 13, 2020 | From the Collection
This fort was erected in 1798-1800 to protect Newport harbor in response to French and British hostilities that culminated in the war of 1812 although it was never used. It was designed and constructed by French-born Louis de Tousard who built Fort Adams on the... 
by Stephanie Amerigian | Mar 9, 2020 | From the Collection
Lena Clarke, one of four history-minded sisters, was the first president of the Jamestown Historical Society. In 1921, she started the Jamestown Historical Society’s photograph collection with an album of 42 photographs of houses and farms around Jamestown. Almost...