May 17, 2012The Home of James Prendergast
Located at 201 North Main Street
In 1815, the village of Jamestown was divided into lots, 50’ by 120’. James Prendergast, who owned almost all the land in the village, settled upon the second lot above Second street on the west side of Main Street in 1815. Here he lived in a simple and plain one and one-half story frame house, until advancing age in 1836 impelled him to move first to Ripley and then to his farm in Kiantone.
Judge Prendergast was a man of unusual force and quality of character. Not only did he found the City of Jamestown, but for twenty-five years succeeding that event he fathered the community. Through the trying times of its infancy, it was he who furnished the people with employment, extended an open hand to the needy, furnished the means of education, and fostered religion.
IN A SMALL HOUSE WHICH STOOD HERE
JAMES PRENDERGAST
FOUNDER OF JAMESTOWN LIVED FROM 1815 TO 1836. JUDGE PRENDERGAST WAS BORN IN PAWLING, NEW YORK, 1764 AND DIED 1846 IN KIANTONE. TO HIS VISION, HIS ENTERPRISE HIS CHRISTIAN CHARACTER AND HIS MANY CIVIC BEQUESTS THE CITY WHICH HE FOUNDED OWES AN EVERLASTING DEBT.