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Library Exhibit, February 2021 Jamestown’s Black Community

Library Exhibit, February 2021 Jamestown’s Black Community

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...
Library Exhibit, December 2020 World War II: The Home Front

Library Exhibit, December 2020 World War II: The Home Front

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...
Library Exhibit, November 2020 Jamestown Lighthouses

Library Exhibit, November 2020 Jamestown Lighthouses

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...
Library Exhibit, October 2020 Markets and Groceries

Library Exhibit, October 2020 Markets and Groceries

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...
National Register Plaque at the Jamestown Windmill

National Register Plaque at the Jamestown Windmill

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...

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