by Peter Fay | Dec 1, 2022 | 2022 Articles, Jamestown History Articles
The Roman goddess Ceres (right) holds a cornucopia and shaft of grain on the 1856 $2 bank note of Rhode Island. (Courtesy of Heritage Auctions) The holiday season is a time for people to ponder the bounty in their lives, and in Jamestown’s past, all wealth flowed from...
by JHS | Dec 1, 2022 | From the Collection
Clara was the daughter of Clara Silvia Furtado and Manual Dutra Lewis who immigrated from Fayal Island Azores and were married January 14, 1906 in the Parish of St. Mary, Our Lady of the Isle in Newport. Manual and Clara had two daughters, Mary Lewis, who married...
by Rosemary Enright and Sue Maden | Nov 11, 2022 | 2022 Articles, Jamestown History Articles
(Photos from Jamestown Historical Society Collection) Thirty years ago, on Saturday, October 17, 1992, about 40,000 people ran, walked, or strolled across the newly opened 7,350-foot-long Jamestown Verrazzano Bridge. It was a beautiful autumn day. The West Passage...
by JHS | Nov 1, 2022 | JHS in the News, Library Exhibits
Ribbons are used for many purposes. They are awarded to the winner of a contest. A ribbon may be worn to show support for a cause or to celebrate an event or to identify the wearer. Ribbons are cut in celebration. The JHS has ribbons of many kinds. The October exhibit...
by JHS | Nov 1, 2022 | From the Collection
From Jamestown’s very beginning to the present day, working farms make up a considerable portion of the acres on our island. According to a map produced in 1933 to show all the farms of Jamestown at the turn of the twentieth century, at that time most of the land was...
by JHS | Oct 1, 2022 | From the Collection
The National Register, authorized by the National Historical Preservation Act of 1966, is the official list of the Nation’s historical places worthy of preservation. To qualify for this register, a property must convey an accurate and authentic sense of its past and...
by JHS | Sep 12, 2022 | JHS in the News, Library Exhibits
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...
by JHS | Sep 5, 2022 | From the Collection
In 1873, the town of Jamestown initiated the first steam ferry service between Jamestown East Ferry and Newport. Fifteen years later, in 1888, steam ferry service between West Ferry and Saunderstown on the mainland began. Just how did passengers and their belongings...
by JHS | Aug 29, 2022 | Uncategorized
House Tour Members Only Preview Party Friday, September 16, 2022, 5-7 pm When: Friday, September 16, 2022 5-7 pm Who: JHS Members What: Cocktails and Hors d’oeuvres Where: 64 Walcott Avenue, the 120 year old “Twin Towers” built for Charles E....
by Peter Fay | Aug 25, 2022 | 2022 Articles, Jamestown History Articles
Manuel Furtado Dutra arrived barefoot and alone in Jamestown in 1917 when he was 13 years old. He had never worn shoes in his life, could not read or write, and had never been to school. Leaving his island home of Fayal in the Azores, Portugal, on the steamship Roma,...
