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What’s in your attic that could help others understand how people lived in Jamestown in the past?
Barbara Magruder, great-granddaughter of William Lincoln Bates who ran Dr. Bates Sanitarium in Jamestown from 1896 until his death in 1932, had already given the JHS many of Dr. Bates’ records. The September exhibit in the library shows some of what she found more recently going through other family papers.

Visit the library to see the entire exhibit and please consider donating your Jamestown memorabilia to Jamestown Historical Society, contact info@jhsri.org.
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The Jamestown
Historical Society
PO Box 156
Jamestown, RI
02835