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 | Nov 7, 2019 | Events, Library Exhibits
Remembering our Veterans In honor of Veterans’ Day, November 11, medals and certificates awarded to Jamestowners during World War I and World War II are on display in the JHS exhibit case in the foyer of the Jamestown Philomenian Library. The awards have been...
by JHS | Sep 25, 2019 | Events, Library Exhibits
New Library Exhibit: September, 2019 From 1922 to 1982, Jamestown had its own theatre – called the Palace at first and, after 1946, the Jamestown Theatre. The theatre brought movies to the people of Jamestown in the days when the ferry schedule governed whether an...
by JHS | Aug 21, 2019 | Events, Library Exhibits
New Library Exhibit: August, 2019 The new exhibit in the library show unusual envelopes in the JHS collection, ranging from late 19th century bills from Jamestown’s summer hotels that used drawings of the hotel as return addresses to fancy cancels in honor of...
by JHS | Jul 8, 2019 | Library Exhibits
New Library Exhibit: June, 2019 The Jamestown Historical Society, working with the Newport Pell Bridge 50 th anniversary committee, has mounted two exhibits in the Jamestown Philomenian Library to celebrate the 50 th anniversary of the Newport-Pell Bridge. The...
