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Shooting, fishing turn to hobbies
As people moved away from the need to fish and hunt, many lost the ability to use the tools once critical to their existence.
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Tefft left lasting impression as clerk
Jamestown native John Doty Jr. proposed that the newly renovated council chambers be named in honor of Rosamond Tefft.
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Revolutionary War took toll on town’s ‘rural character’
A decade ago, residents declared the overarching goal of their community plan should be to “protect Jamestown’s rural character.”
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137-Year Transformation from Boardinghouse to Condos
Abbott Chandler, a 30-year-old merchant mariner who had made nine voyages around South America to the Pacific Ocean, arrived in Jamestown about 1880.
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Polish couple settles into life at West Ferry
Among the men who served at Fort Greble and stayed to become a Jamestown resident was Antoni Piliski. He was born in late 1874 or early 1875 in an area of northeastern Poland that had been annexed by Russia in the late 18th century.
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Woman with link to local slave visits farm
Jackson, of Providence, aided by the Jamestown Historical Society, encountered the birth site of her ancestor, Bristol Underwood, for the first time.
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Saunderstown man picks fight with ferries
Stillman Saunders on the beach at his boatbuilding facility in Saunderstown, circa 1905. Unhappy with the ferry service across the West Passage, he launched a rival company in 1906 to compete with the Jamestown & Newport Ferry Company.
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‘America’s most natural’ golf course
Audley Clarke, born in 1862 in Staten Island, N.Y., had Newport and Jamestown roots. His ancestor Jeremiah Clarke (1605– 52) was one of the founders of Newport and an early governor of Rhode Island.
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Slaves linked to Africa
In 1816, Ormand Remington of Jamestown told the Newport Town Council that he “was born on the coast of Africa and brought into this country by Captain Robert Stoddard, [a Newport slave trader], when he was about 12 or 13 years old.”
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Ferryboats from Virginia
For 78 years, from 1873 to 1951, the town of Jamestown through the Jamestown & Newport Ferry Co. provided transportation between Conanicut and Aquidneck islands.
