by JHS | Feb 18, 2021 | JHS in the News, Library Exhibits
The new exhibit in the JHS display case in the Jamestown Philomenian Library tells the stories of some of Africans and African Americans who have lived on the island over the passed 350 years. During the colonial era, Black and Native American slaves made up about...
by JHS | Dec 29, 2020 | JHS in the News, Library Exhibits
The new exhibit in the JHS display case in the Jamestown Philomenian Library celebrates the different ways the people in Jamestown supported its military forces fighting in Europe and the Far East from 1941 to 1945. Ambulance volunteers, c.1945 Those unable to serve...
by JHS | Nov 20, 2020 | JHS in the News, Library Exhibits
From colonial days till the present, aids to navigation – lighthouse, foghorns, buoys, lightships – have warned mariners of the risks ahead as they entered Narragansett Bay. Jamestown itself was home to four lighthouses, two on Conanicut Island, one on Gould Island...
by JHS | Oct 1, 2020 | JHS in the News, Library Exhibits
In the late 19thcentuy, Jamestown’s population ballooned and the number of farmers, who grew most of their own food, decreased. Purchased produce was in demand, and grocery stores proliferated. By the mid-1980s, regulation and competition had driven most of these...
by JHS | Sep 8, 2020 | Events, JHS in the News
The new brass plaque, sponsored by a grant from the William Pomeroy Foundation, was placed on the mill this summer. The windmill has been on the National Register of Historic Places since 1973. An earlier plaque disappeared several years ago. The National Register...
