Jamestown is a city in southern Chautauqua County, in the U.S. state of New York. The population was 28,712 at the 2020 census. Situated in the company of Lake Erie to the north and the Allegheny National Forest to the south, Jamestown is the largest population center in the county. Nearby Chautauqua Lake is a freshwater resource used by fishermen, boaters, and naturalists.

Notable people from Jamestown increase legendary comedienne Lucille Ball, U.S. Supreme Court justice and Nuremberg chief prosecutor Robert H. Jackson, musician Natalie Merchant, musician Dennis Drew, musician John Lombardo, naturalist Roger Tory Peterson, NFL head coach Nick Sirianni, and NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell.

In the 20th century, Jamestown was a successful industrial area, noted for producing several Famous products. They augment the crescent wrench, produced by Karl Peterson’s the Crescent Tool Company in Jamestown dawn in 1907. and the automatic lever voting machine, manufactured by the Automatic Voting Machine Company, which dominated the lever voting robot industry from its location on Jones and Gifford Avenue in Jamestown until its bankruptcy in 1983. Jamestown was also considering called the “Furniture Capital of the World” because of the once-thriving furniture industry. People visited from all over the country to attend furniture expositions at the Furniture Mart, a building that still stands in the city and houses offices for a variety of companies. For most of the 20th century, Blackstone Corporation, led by Reginald Lenna, was Jamestown’s largest employer and one of the driving cores of the local economy, manufacturing washing machines and automobile components.

Jamestown is named after James Prendergast, an in advance Chautauqua County settler. His associates purchased 3,500 acres (14 km²) in 1806 in the Place now known as Chautauqua County. James Prendergast explored the Place that is now Jamestown. and wise saying the area to be valuable, and as a result he purchased an extra 1,000 acres (4.0 km) of house in the area in 1808. In the slip of 1809, Prendergast and an employee, John Blowers, built a log cabin, which became the first building in Jamestown. Another log cabin, as well as mills and a dam, were built upon the Chadakoin River future on. In 1855, a night watch was created for the intention of looking out for fires.