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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1NZQ_memorial-to-the-veterans-of-jamestown_Jamestown-RI.html
Memorial
To The Veterans
of
Jamestown, Rhode Island
Who Served In The
Spanish - American War
World War One
World War Two
The Korean War
The Vietnamese War
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1NYQ_history-of-the-beavertail-light-station_Jamestown-RI.html
1678
Town of Jamestown is incorporated. There are about 150 residents.
1705
Jamestown Town Council orders that a Watch House be built at "Beaver Tail."
1712
Jamestown Town Council orders Gershom Remington to build a "Fire Beacon" and Bene…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1NYK_the-keepers-house_Jamestown-RI.html
Although most lighthouse keepers were married, at many small lighthouses they lived a solitary life while their families remained on the mainland. Beavertail, being on Conanicut Island, allowed the keepers and their family to live at the site.
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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1NYA_foundation-of-the-original-beavertail-lighthouse_Jamestown-RI.html
Foundation of the Original
Beavertail Lighthouse
Erected 1749
Third Lighthouse To
Be Established On
The Atlantic Coast
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1NXY_fog-signal-building_Jamestown-RI.html
In 1829, Congress appropriated $1,250 for a 600-pound fog bell for Beavertail. Prior to that time the keeper fired a cannon on foggy nights. That same year a fog bell house was built adjacent to the tower.
Beavertail has probably seen more type…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1NXW_whale-rock-lighthouse_Jamestown-RI.html
What resembles a submarine on the surface just over a mile southwest of this point is all that remains of the Whale Rock Lighthouse.
Whale Rock is a flat ledge about a half acre in size, yet it claimed at least eight ships and six lives before …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1NXM_the-assistant-keepers-house_Jamestown-RI.html
The first assistant keeper at Beavertail Light was hired about 1859. It appears that the early assistant keepers shared part of the keeper's quarters or lived in one of the outbuildings on site.
In 1898, the U.S. Lighthouse Board added this res…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1NXH_the-west-passage-to-narragansett-bay_Jamestown-RI.html
You are looking at the West Passage, one of two entrances to Narragansett Bay, New England's largest estuary. There are over 30 islands in the bay. There is very little commercial shipping in the West Passage since it is much shallower than the Ea…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM12E8_history-of-the-dumplings_Jamestown-RI.html
Historically, the rocky cliffs behind and above the buildings of the Harbor Mine Complex were of military significance to Rhode Island's earliest colonists, who built earthen fortifications on its headland and installed cannon to protect nearby Ne…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM12E5_harbor-mine-torpedo-complex_Jamestown-RI.html
The Harbor Mine or Torpedo Complex was constructed during the period of 1908 to 1911 as part of a comprehensive harbor defense system for Narragansett Bay. The two-story concrete structure served as a Mine Storage Warehouse in which the parts requ…