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  History of Jamestown, New York, USA

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• 1854 - Jamestown
  Jamestown, a thriving post-village of Ellicott township, Chautauque county, New York, on the outlet of Chautauque lake, 21 miles S. E. from...Read MORE...
  
  
  
•  1868 - A business firm in Jamestown, Chatauque county N. Y., lately inserted a nine column advertisement in the Jamestown Journal.
  A few days thereafter they sold in one day goods enough at retail to amount to over thirteen hundred dollars.
  St. Joseph Herald
  Saint Joseph, Michigan
  August 8, 1868
  
  
•  1885 - Ex-Governor Reuben E. Fenton died suddenly Tuesday while sitting at his desk in the First National Bank at Jamestown, N. Y.
  
  St. Joseph Herald
  Saint Joseph, Michigan
  August 29, 1885
  
  
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  East Third Street
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  South Main Street
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  Third Street
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•  1891 - A FATAL HOTEL FIRE. THREE WOMEN AND A LITTLE BOY BURNED TO DEATH.
  Jamestown, N. Y., Nov. 23 - Three women and a boy were burned to death between 1 and 2 o'clock this morning in a fire which gutted the Old Homestead...Read MORE...
  
  
  
• 1895 - Jamestown
  Jamestown, a handsome city of Chautauqua co., N.Y., at the junction of several railroads, and on the navigable outlet of Chautauqua Lake, 27 miles...Read MORE...
  
  
  
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  Y.M.C.A. Building
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  Jamestown, N.Y.
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  Boat Landing at Jamestown, N.Y.
  postmarked 1908
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•  1910 - JAMESTOWN HAS A MILLION DOLLAR FIRE - THE GOKEY BUILDING AND SHERMAN HOUSE TOTALLY DESTROYED AND TWENTY FIRMS SUFFER LOSSES.
  Fire Started From Flying Embers in a Blaze on Saturday, and Continued Until Eight O'clock This Morning.
  
  Jamestown, March 14 - Shortly after one...Read MORE...
  
  
  
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  The Seven Churches
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  High School
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  Jamestown's New Municipal Hospital
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  Fire Department and City Hall
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• 1916
  Jamestown, a city and summer-resort of Chautauqua co., N.Y., on the navigable outlet of Chautauqua Lake, 69 miles S. by W. of Buffalo, on the Erie...Read MORE...
  
  
  
• 1921 - The City of Jamestown
  The first white man to seriously consider the place now Jamestown as a possible site for settlement was James Prendergast, and it is from him that...Read MORE...
  
  
  
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  Prendergast Free Library
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•  1929 - CITY HALL ROCKED BY BOMB BLAST.
  Jamestown, Jan. 15, (AP) - A bomb planted in a public rest room of the City Hall late yesterday badly damaged the interior of the room and injured...Read MORE...