by JHS | Mar 14, 2022 | JHS in the News, Library Exhibits
Back in 1849, there was a New York City baseball team called the Knickerbockers. During their games, they wore straw caps to protect themselves from the sun. This was the first version of the billed cap we know as a baseball cap. Players experimented with various...
by JHS | Feb 13, 2022 | JHS in the News, Library Exhibits
The JHS library exhibit for February displays some of the smaller signs and plaques from the Jamestown Historical Society’s collection of signs. Many of the larger ones are on permanent display in the town’s Recreation Center lobby and the back stairwell of Town...
by JHS | Jan 16, 2022 | JHS in the News, Library Exhibits
Some of the earliest donations to the Jamestown Historical Society collection reflect an age that in 1912 was just ending with the introduction of electricity. Wick trimmers were already out of date by 1919 when the first wick trimmer was added to the collection. The...
by JHS | Dec 15, 2021 | JHS in the News, Library Exhibits
For the December exhibit in the library, the Jamestown Historical Society joined forces with the Valmont “Bucky” Caswell Museum at the Jamestown Volunteer Fire Department to show toy fire engines across the last century. The earliest is a miniature version of the...
by JHS | Nov 23, 2021 | JHS in the News, Library Exhibits
The JHS library exhibit for November displays a collection of boxes designed for many different uses. A tiny round ceramic snuff box used in the 19th century contained powdered tobacco. A pinch sniffed from the back of the hand would give an instant nicotine rush. A...
by JHS | Oct 26, 2021 | Events, JHS in the News
Abel Franklin gravestone carved by William Stevens, of Newport, RI. c. 1758 Have you ever walked through a cemetery and wondered about the people buried there? Where they came from? What they did? Whether any descendants are still in the area? A Cedar...
