Jamestown
Rhode Island
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The Jamestown Historical Society
In 1912 The Jamestown Historical Society was founded primarily to ensure the preservation of the 1787 Jamestown Windmill on North Road. (The Windmill was fully restored and today it is maintained by The Society and open to the public.)
In 1954 The Society assumed partial responsibility for upkeep and care of the 1787 Quaker Meetinghouse on North Road.
In 1971 The Society obtained a $1 /year lease from the town to house its collections in the town's 1886 one-room schoolhouse located on Narragansett Avenue.
In 1981 The Society took on the responsibility to help the Friends of the Conanicut Battery restore and maintain the 1776 Battery off of Beavertail Road overlooking West Passage.
In 2004 The Society initiated a project to digitize its 4,500+ item collection of photographs and artifacts for on-line accessibility and more secruity.
In 2005 The Society purchased at auction the town's founding property deed executed in 1634 transferring the land from the Narragansett Indians to the town's first English settlers.
In 2006 The Society committed to a Long Range Plan which includes establishing a satellite JHS museum/workshop in its local elemnetary school.
The 2006 Long Range Plan also committed to restore the exterior of its 1886 schoolhouse museum and rehabilitate the interior into a modern environmentally controlled space to house its collections.
In 2006 The Society passed the 2/3 completion mark of digitizing its 4,500+ item collection and making them available for online viewing on a newly developed website.
In 2007 The Society began a Capital Campaign Drive to raise $500,000. The funds will be used to restore the exterior of The Society's historic Museum Building on Narragansett Avenue and redo the interior including installing heat. The funds will also be used to build an environmentally controlled vault in the basement of the new town hall across the street for storing part of the The Society's Collections. Additional funds will be used to establish a teaching and research class room in the town's grade school to introduce school children to the Town's history.
In 1954 The Society assumed partial responsibility for upkeep and care of the 1787 Quaker Meetinghouse on North Road.
In 1971 The Society obtained a $1 /year lease from the town to house its collections in the town's 1886 one-room schoolhouse located on Narragansett Avenue.
In 1981 The Society took on the responsibility to help the Friends of the Conanicut Battery restore and maintain the 1776 Battery off of Beavertail Road overlooking West Passage.
In 2004 The Society initiated a project to digitize its 4,500+ item collection of photographs and artifacts for on-line accessibility and more secruity.
In 2005 The Society purchased at auction the town's founding property deed executed in 1634 transferring the land from the Narragansett Indians to the town's first English settlers.
In 2006 The Society committed to a Long Range Plan which includes establishing a satellite JHS museum/workshop in its local elemnetary school.
The 2006 Long Range Plan also committed to restore the exterior of its 1886 schoolhouse museum and rehabilitate the interior into a modern environmentally controlled space to house its collections.
In 2006 The Society passed the 2/3 completion mark of digitizing its 4,500+ item collection and making them available for online viewing on a newly developed website.
In 2007 The Society began a Capital Campaign Drive to raise $500,000. The funds will be used to restore the exterior of The Society's historic Museum Building on Narragansett Avenue and redo the interior including installing heat. The funds will also be used to build an environmentally controlled vault in the basement of the new town hall across the street for storing part of the The Society's Collections. Additional funds will be used to establish a teaching and research class room in the town's grade school to introduce school children to the Town's history.