Jamestown (New York)
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Location in New York
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| Basic data | |||
| Foundation : | April 19, 1886 | ||
| State : | United States | ||
| State : | new York | ||
| County : | Chautauqua County | ||
| Coordinates : | 42 ° 6 ′ N , 79 ° 14 ′ W | ||
| Time zone : | Eastern ( UTC − 5 / −4 ) | ||
| Residents : | 31,146 (as of 2010) | ||
| Population density : | 1,348.3 inhabitants per km 2 | ||
| Area : | 23.5 km 2 (approx. 9 mi 2 ) of which 23.1 km 2 (approx. 9 mi 2 ) is land |
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| Height : | 424 m | ||
| Postcodes : | 14701, 14702 | ||
| Area code : | +1 716 | ||
| FIPS : | 36-38264 | ||
| GNIS ID : | 979102 | ||
| Website : | www.JamestownNY.net | ||
| Mayor : | Eddie Sundquist | ||
Jamestown is a city in Chautauqua County in the southwest of the US state New York , with 31,146 inhabitants (as of 2010). The urban area has a size of 23.5 km². The city is located on the southeast tip of Chautauqua Lake
history
The settlement on the site of today's Jamestown, which had existed since around 1810, was declared a village in 1827 and raised to an independent city on April 19, 1886. Until the abolition of slavery in the United States , Jamestown was an important station on the Underground Railroad , and many slaves who had fled were successfully brought to safety across Lake Erie to Canada by the local African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church .
sons and daughters of the town
- Davis Hanson Waite (1825-1901), politician
- Gilbert Dennison Harris (1864-1952), paleontologist
- Willis R. Whitney (1868-1958), chemist
- Brenda Fowler (1883–1942), actress
- Roger Tory Peterson (1908–1996), ornithologist, naturalist and illustrator
- Everett B. Cole (1910-2001), science fiction writer
- Lucille Ball (1911–1989), actress
- Ray Triscari (1923–1996), studio and jazz musician
- Charles Goodell (1926–1987), politician (Republican)
- Ralph E. Erickson (* 1928), lawyer
- John D. Anderson (* 1930), nuclear physicist
- Suzan Ball (1934–1955), actress
- Stan Lundine (born 1939), politician
- Theodore Albrecht (* 1945), musicologist
- Julie Anne Peters (* 1952), author of children's books
- Roger Goodell (born 1959), football official
- Natalie Merchant (* 1963), singer and songwriter
- Nick Carter (* 1980), singer, member of the boy band Backstreet Boys
Web links
Commons : Jamestown, New York - collection of images, videos, and audio files
swell
- ↑ Mayor's Office. In: jamestownny.net , accessed April 4, 2020.
- ↑ Quick facts: Jamestown, New York (English) ( Memento of the original from February 1, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Gayrard S. Williams: Black Religion and Black Radicalism. An Interpretation of the Religious History of African Americans. 3rd edition . Maryknoll 1999, pp. 113-115.
