NOTICE: The Fenton History Center is closed Feb. 7, 2026
We are here today for a slightly delayed celebration of July 4, American Independence Day, one of the most thoroughly covered subjects in American history.
Like most places its size, Jamestown has had its share of unsuccessful and minimally successful newspapers. Our current older generation remembers the Jamestown Sun that
In the past two months, I’ve surveyed what little is known about the first several thousand years of Chautauqua County prehistory. It was a little
Last month I wrote about the first 1,300 years of Chautauqua County prehistory. At least two dozen chert projectile points and some other flake tools
Like most local history museums, Fenton has a number of stone projectile points, generally called “arrowheads,” recovered from various locations in the area. In Chautauqua
It is customary to think about change at the new year so I’m departing once again from my usual discussion of collection items to remark
Arthur Wellington Anderson (October 6, 1889-December 12, 1949), according to his Jamestown Journal obituary and Lake View Cemetery records was born near Augusta, Maine. He
The Fenton History Center recently acquired a small, unpretentious oak drop leaf table that had remained in the family of the original owner since the