by Rosemary Enright and Sue Maden | Dec 22, 2022 | 2022 Articles, Jamestown History Articles
Preston E. Peckham and his wife, Catherine, taking a chilly winter carriage ride. Participating in horse competition, pigeon races, and carriage parades, Preston, born in 1884, was considered one of the most colorful turn-of-the-century characters in Jamestown. John...
by Peter Fay | Dec 1, 2022 | 2022 Articles, Jamestown History Articles
The Roman goddess Ceres (right) holds a cornucopia and shaft of grain on the 1856 $2 bank note of Rhode Island. (Courtesy of Heritage Auctions) The holiday season is a time for people to ponder the bounty in their lives, and in Jamestown’s past, all wealth flowed from...
by Rosemary Enright and Sue Maden | Nov 11, 2022 | 2022 Articles, Jamestown History Articles
(Photos from Jamestown Historical Society Collection) Thirty years ago, on Saturday, October 17, 1992, about 40,000 people ran, walked, or strolled across the newly opened 7,350-foot-long Jamestown Verrazzano Bridge. It was a beautiful autumn day. The West Passage...
by Rosemary Enright and Sue Maden | Sep 22, 2022 | 2022 Articles, Jamestown History Articles
The New Year’s greeting to summer residents from 1930 suggesting they entice their friends to come to the island. In May 1929, 21 Jamestowners met at Town Hall to form an organization to “promote the economic, civic, and social welfare of the people of Jamestown and...
by Peter Fay | Aug 25, 2022 | 2022 Articles, Jamestown History Articles
Manuel Furtado Dutra arrived barefoot and alone in Jamestown in 1917 when he was 13 years old. He had never worn shoes in his life, could not read or write, and had never been to school. Leaving his island home of Fayal in the Azores, Portugal, on the steamship Roma,...
by Rosemary Enright and Sue Maden | Jul 20, 2022 | 2022 Articles, Jamestown History Articles
William Foster Caswell, commonly known as “Babe” was born in Jamestown in November 1909, the fifth child of John and Isabel Caswell. The census-taker six months later recorded “no name” for him. Family lore says that “Babe” was his only name until he selected...
