Battery Day - 2013
Jamestown's Conanicut Battery Historic Park
Battery Lane off Beavertail Road
1 to 3 p.m.
Saturday, May 18
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Battery Day - 2013 Jamestown's Conanicut Battery Historic Park Battery Lane off Beavertail Road 1 to 3 p.m. Saturday, May 18
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WINDMILL and MUSEUMReopening June 22/232013 Museum Exhibit"Architectural Styles in Jamestown: 1700-1950
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Photo by Mick Cochran
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Improved Signage at Windmill How the Jamestown windmill works will soon be easier to understand. The Rhode Island Council for the Humanities (RICH) has awarded the Society $11,650 to improve the signage inside the 1787 structure.
Under the grant, new and more attractive labels will replace the existing ones, and diagrams explaining the working of the mill will be added to relate the labeled mechanism to the actual milling operation. The second level, which was originally used for storage and is now empty, will be turned into a small museum of windmill history. Lighting will be added at all levels and used to call attention to distinctive features of the building and to the operations performed there.
The schedule calls for the project to be completed by Windmill Day 2014, which is planned for mid-July 2014. |
Shelving Installation Complete On November 15, The Champlin Foundations announced a grant of $27,205.00 for the Jamestown Historical Society to install compact shelving in the vault. The shelving was installed in March. Read about the new shelving in the Jamestown Press and watch the day-to-day installation activities in our on-line presentation as pdf or PowerPoint. This moveable shelving more than doubles the storage capacity of the climate controlled vault, from 271 linear feet to 651 linear feet.
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Jamestown men announced their support of the United Colonies in this June 1774 document conserved in the JHS collection.
Conserving 18th and 19th Century Documents In April, the Society received a grant from the Rhode Island Foundation Ott Fund to clean, mend, and place in encapsulate in plastic about 70 18th and early 19th century documents in the collection. A follow-on grant has since been received from the Rhode Island Council for the Humanities to conserve another 210 documents. Read about the documents in the Jamestown Press. |
Antoinette F. Downing Volunteer Award |
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President Linnea Petersen and secretary Rosemary Enright accepting the Antoinette F. Downing Volunteer Award.
Each year, the Rhode Island Historical Preservation & Heritage Commission and Preserve Rhode Island honor a “volunteer preservationist who has made a contribution through a lifetime of effort or through a single significant project.” The 2012 award was given to the Jamestown Historical Society and to its generations of volunteers for 100 years of dedication to preserving the history of Jamestown.
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Click HERE to see Jamestown's Steam Ferries: 1873-1969 Address by Archie Clarke, III at JHS ANNUAL MEETING August 9, 2012 Video courtesy of thejamestownrecord.com |
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