High Street Walls - Jamestown RI

City:: Jamestown, RI
Site Type:: Flood and Erosion Control, Infrastructure and Utilities
New Deal Agencies:: Works Progress Administration (WPA), Work Relief Programs

“Early projects proposed by the town [of Jamestown, R.I.] and paid for by the WPA included … stone walls along High Street.”

Stone walls can be seen on the south site of High Street, in front of a couple of properties between Wacott Ave. and Baldwin Ct.

"Jamestown: A History of Narragansett Bay's Island Town," by Rosemary Enright, Sue Maden, Jamestown Historical Society

Site originally submitted by Evan Kalish on March 9, 2018.

High St.
Jamestown, RI

Coordinates: 41.491939, -71.368066

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2 comments on “High Street Walls – Jamestown RI”

2 comments on “High Street Walls – Jamestown RI”

Should be “Walcott Avenue”