Left:
Steamboat Landing, Conanicut Park (at the north end of the island)
showing
the "Mount Hope" pulling up. Right: Conanicut Park from a 1905 brochure
put out by the New York, New Haven and Hartford Rail Road. |
Left:
Steamboat Landing, Conanicut Park (at the north end of the island)
showing
the "Mount Hope" pulling up. Right: Conanicut Park from a 1905 brochure
put out by the New York, New Haven and Hartford Rail Road. |
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 Right:
Seaside Cottage (200 years old) Conanicut Park. It was founded in 1877
by the Providence YWCA in Seaside Cottage. Left: the card identifies
the cottage as being a Y.W.C.A. camp. It was mailed 1945. |
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 Left: "The
Cottage-By-The-Sea, Seaside Camp." Right: "The Dining Room, Seaside
Camp." Both were mailed in 1941. |
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 Left: Seaside
Cottages, Conanicut Park" the sign on the building says "Andrews
Cottage."Right: The first of five snapshots taken "August 16, 17, 1930" at the YWCA camp. This picture is either arrival or departure. |
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 Left: Seaside
Cottage is still over the door. Right: one of the larger buildings at
the YWCA camp - named Nanksqua. One basketball backboard is in the
middle of the lawn. |
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 Left: The pier,
a float and boats at Seaside Cottage. Right: girls hanging out on the
porch of Nanksqua above. The last camping season was 1968. [Source:
"Jamestown's Camp Seaside, 1877 to 1970" in the April 1, 2004 issue of
the Jamestown Press] |
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"The Conanicut Light, Jamestown, R. I." Also known as the North Point Light, it was built in 1886 at the north end of the island. The building is still there, but is now a private residence. It has not been used for navigation since 1933. |