by JHS | Mar 1, 2024 | From the Collection
Click on the images below to see them in our Online Catalog. Jamestown is a haven for writers and artists, and one of our treasures was Constance Armbrust, known to everyone as “Connie.” Connie was born November 7, 1907, to Archie and Emily Dearborn Warren in Concord,...
by Peter Fay | Feb 29, 2024 | 2024 Articles, Jamestown History Articles
“Sheep in an Orchard on Conanicut” by John Austin Sands Monk. More sheep roamed Jamestownbefore the Revolutionary War than after it. Gershom Remington, for example, had 28 sheep in1773. By 1783, they were all gone. A decade ago, residents declared the overarching goal...
by JHS | Feb 1, 2024 | From the Collection
Click on the images below to see them in our Online Catalog. In 1887, Captain Abbott Chandler, who ran a small boat business, renting rowboats and sailboats from his floating pier south of the East Ferry wharf, hired Charles Bevins to build a boardinghouse for seamen...
by Rosemary Enright and Sue Maden | Jan 18, 2024 | 2024 Articles, Jamestown History Articles
Chandler House, later Harbor View, about 1900. From a glass negative. 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. He began a business renting rowboats and...
by JHS | Jan 1, 2024 | From the Collection
Click on the images below to see them in our Online Catalog. The Jamestown Historical Society has more than 11,000 photographs in its collection. Six of these are unique because they are tiny visuals that are attached to larger documents: two postcards, two envelopes,...
by Rosemary Enright and Sue Maden | Dec 14, 2023 | 2023 Articles, Jamestown History Articles
Antonina and Antoni Piliski at the time of their marriage. Piliski was stationed at Fort Greble on Dutch Island and the couple bought property on Pierce Avenue. Fort Greble on Dutch Island was built on the remnants of a training camp for the Civil War. The...
by JHS | Dec 1, 2023 | Events, JHS in the News
Saturday, Dec. 2, 2023, 9 am – 4 pm Lawn Avenue School, Jamestown, RI Visit the Jamestown Historical Society table at the CIAA Holiday Fair. We’ll have great gift items including lots of different books for adults and children, framed and unframed ferry...
by JHS | Dec 1, 2023 | From the Collection
Click on the images below to see them in our Online Catalog. JHS recently received Elmer V. Newton’s Conanicut Island Light Keeper’s Journal, 1921-1933. Lighthouse keepers were required to keep a journal mostly of day to day life, when inspections were made, and what...
by Peter Fay | Nov 30, 2023 | 2023 Articles, Jamestown History Articles
Christine Jackson, a descendant of Bristol Underwood at farmhouse stone wall in Jamestown. (Photo by Peter Fay) Christine Jackson reached down to touch the stone wall bordering the farm on East Shore Road where her third great-grandfather worked in the 18th century....
by JHS | Nov 8, 2023 | Events, Newsletters
Our Fall Newsletter is now available for download. This spring and summer were very busy as the JHS offered talks, outings, exhibits, events, and gatherings. Some events were only for members, some for the wider...