Jamestown Historical Society

Jamestown Town Hall
The original Town Hall built in 1883, looking southeast. The building beyond the Town Hall is the original Jamestown Fire Department.
The New Town Hall 2008 keeps the old Town Hall for its Council Meeting Chamber. The New Town Hall addition where the original prepurchase agreement is displayed is to the left.

The JHS has two permanent displays in the Jamestown Town Hall.

The original prepurchase agreement among the potential buyers of Conanicut Island as they prepared for a "full and firm purchase" of the island from the Narragansetts is displayed in a specially designed, sealed case in the first floor hallway. 

A permanent exhibit in the back stairwell of the Town Hall celebrates the history of Jamestown in the Resort Era: 1875-1930.