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The Enterprise Transportation Company
The Enterprise Transportation Company provided ferry service between Jamestown, Rhode Island and New York for 18 months beginning in 1906.
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Jamestown Telephone Directories
Jamestown’s Telephone Directories are compiled by the Jamestown Women’s Club of RI. Many editions have original art work on the cover.
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John Austin Sands Monks 1850-1917
John Austin Sands Monks was listed as a painter and an etcher. He was known for his depictions of landscapes and animals, particularly sheep.
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Jamestown Grocery Stores in Past Years
Jamestown’s many small grocery stores over the years included an A&P on the waterfront, several on Narragansett Ave and others on Southwest Ave.
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Three Sisters
In 1897, Patrick H. Horgan, the owner of the Thorndike Hotel which stood where BankNewport is now, built three summer cottages in the block south of the hotel.
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Conanicut Yacht Club
In 1891, a group of Jamestown residents met to organize a yacht club which received a Certificate of Incorporation in 1892.
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Conanicut Island Dairies
Alfred W. Bowser, a wounded Canadian World War I veteran, came to Jamestown in 1929 as the farm manager of Cajacet (also known as the Thomas Paine House). Bowser was in the dairy business seven years until 1944 when he sold the dairy to John M. Anderson, a former state trooper.
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John C. Rembijas
John C. Rembijas was born in Woonsocket, Rhode Island in 1916, his parents having immigrated from Poland.
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Ceramic Pot
This small ceramic pot with its lid is believed to have come across the bay in the house that became the Bay Voyage hotel.
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Connie Armbrust
Jamestown is a haven for writers and artists, and one of our treasures was Constance Armbrust, known to everyone as “Connie.”
