by Peter Fay | Nov 30, 2023 | 2023 Articles, Jamestown History Articles
Christine Jackson, a descendant of Bristol Underwood at farmhouse stone wall in Jamestown. (Photo by Peter Fay) Christine Jackson reached down to touch the stone wall bordering the farm on East Shore Road where her third great-grandfather worked in the 18th century....
by Rosemary Enright and Sue Maden | Oct 26, 2023 | 2023 Articles, Jamestown History Articles
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. (JHS, P2012.107.010) For...
by Rosemary Enright and Sue Maden | Sep 28, 2023 | 2023 Articles, Jamestown History Articles
Making one of ‘America’s most natural’ golf courses Winswepe, sometimes spelled Wyndesweepe, built circa 1885, was H. Audley Clarke’s summer cottage on Prospect Hill Farm. (JHS, P1975.015) Audley Clarke, born in 1862 in Staten Island, N.Y., had Newport and Jamestown...
by Peter Fay | Aug 24, 2023 | 2023 Articles, Jamestown History Articles
Jamestown Slaves linked to Sierra Leone, Gambia rivers Bunch Island in the Sierra Leone River, 1784. A woman enslaved in Jamestown by Sayles Carr was one of 75 captives to be purchased on the voyage along the West African river in 1742. NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF THE UNITED...
by Rosemary Enright and Sue Maden | Jul 20, 2023 | 2023 Articles, Jamestown History Articles
Narragansett Bay ferryboats made way from Virginia The Jamestown on Narragansett Bay. Before arriving in Rhode Island in 1958 to provide service between Conanicut and Aquidneck islands, the ferryboat was named Richmond and served the state of Virginia. For 78 years,...
by Rosemary Enright and Sue Maden | Jun 15, 2023 | 2023 Articles, Jamestown History Articles
Before the Newport Pell Bridge was completed in 1969, the only way to get from Jamestown to Newport was to take the ferry or drive through Providence. Although the schedule changed from year to year, ferries ran about every hour in the winter and every half hour in...
