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Jamestown Museum is a local history museum which tells the history of Jamestown, Rhode Island and is run by the Jamestown Historical Society. The Jamestown Historical Society founded the museum in the current building in 1971. The building was originally as a one-room school dating from 1885, which later served as the town library from 1898 to ...
Jamestown: Continuously operating gateway to Narragansett Bay since 1749; part of the Lighthouses of Rhode Island Thematic Resource (TR) 3: Thomas Carr Farmstead Site (Keeler Site RI-707) November 1, 1984 : Address Restricted: Jamestown: 4: Conanicut Battery: July 2, 1973 : West of Beaver Tail Rd.
The Windmill Hill Historic District is a historic district encompassing a large rural landscape in Jamestown, Rhode Island.It is bounded on the north by Eldred Avenue, on the east by East Shore Road, on the south by Great Creek, and on the west by Narragansett Bay.
The Jamestown Windmill is a smock mill in Jamestown, Rhode Island within the Windmill Hill Historic District on North Road north of Weeden Lane. The 30-foot (9.1 m) high windmill was built in 1787 to coarse grind flint corn to feed to animals and finer corn meal for farmer families to eat. [ 2 ]
The Conanicut Battery is a colonial and 20th century military battery in Jamestown, Rhode Island, west of Beaver Tail Road. The site offers a commanding view of the West Passage of Narragansett Bay. During the American Revolutionary War, local militia constructed an earthen battery on the site. The British occupied Jamestown later that year and ...
Fort Wetherill is a former coast artillery fort that occupies the southern portion of the eastern tip of Conanicut Island in Jamestown, Rhode Island. It sits atop high granite cliffs, overlooking the entrance to Narragansett Bay .
This list of museums in Rhode Island encompasses museums defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.
The Jamestown Archeological District (also known as the Great Creek Archeological District) is an expansive archaeological district which is the site of a major prehistoric Native American settlement in Jamestown, Rhode Island.