1886- City of Jamestown incorporated. Oscar F. Price named first mayor. First aldermen were Edward R. Bootey, Hiram S. Hall, Adam Ports, John G. Wicks, William T. Bradshaw, Theodore E. Grandin, James S. Ellis, Charles F. Hedman, Conrad A. Hult and Elial F. Carpenter.

1887- Jamestown Electric Light and Power Company formed; Art Metal established and WCA Hospital started.

1888- Jamestown Woolen Spinning Co. formed; cornerstone of Holy Trinity Lutheran Church laid.

1889- American Aristotype Co. started.

1890- First electric trolley car in Jamestown.

1891- Fire destroyed the Old Homestead Hotel at Third and Pine Streets and four persons were burned to death. James Prendergast Library opened and Municipal Light Plant started.

1892- Chautauqua Worsted Mills formed.

1893-Jamestown Veneer Works started by Nathan Wilson; first ice cream company started making Collins Ice Cream.

1895- City Hall cornerstone laid; City Council decides to lay no more wooden sidewalks; Eleazer Green elected mayor.

1896- Empire Worsted Mills formed.

1898- Chautauqua Towel Mills opened.

1899- Henry H. Cooper elected mayor.

1900- Tinkham Brothers established their business; Furniture Index was published; Hall Textile Corp. formed.

1903- City purchased water system; J. P. Danielson Tool Co. organized.

1906- James L. Weeks elected mayor.

1907- Crescent Tool Company started by Karl Peterson and Charles F. Falldine.

1908- Samuel A. Carlson elected mayor; served to 1928 and from 1930 to 1934. Music Study Club organized. Jamestown Symphony Orchestra started.

1910- Excavation begun for construction of Jamestown General Hospital.

1911- Norden Club started; on Sept. 28, 1911, the first plane flew over Jamestown.

1917- April 8, Company E left for guard duty; Emerson Glass Co. started.

1918- Jamestown Corp. formed to make airplane propellors; steamer, City of Pittsburgh sinks at Boatlanding. On July 7 word was received of the death of Ira Lou Spring, the first Jamestown man to die in France in World War I.

1921- Zonta Club organized.

1925- Hotel Samuels sold; Scottish Rite Temple formally opened; taxpayers vote a $350,000 bond issue for Third Street Bridge; Theodore Roosevelt spoke here.

1926- Third Street Bridge completed.

1927- Jamestown celebrated centennial of its incorporation as a village; Lars Larson elected mayor.

1931- Fire destroyed old Martyn Factory; city purchases Niagara, Lockport & Ontario Power Co.

1932- Ground broken for the new armory; Erie Railroad station is dedicated; Community Chest permanently formed.

1933- Elk Furniture Co. sold; Milton Carlson and Frederick Larson took over Jamestown Airport; board of education assumed title to school forest; Councilman Leon F. Roberts elected mayor.

1934- Jamestown Airport Corp. offered airport to the city; city secured the old armory as relief center; ground breaking exercise held at new high school.

1935- Board of Education opened new industrial arts building; City Council approved $314,000 airport for North Main Street site; Jamestown High School formally dedicated.

1936- Robert H. Jackson appointed assistant United States attorney general.

1937- Temple Hesed Abraham dedicated ; Alfred Collegiate Extension Center opened with 80 students.

1938- Harry C. Erickson became mayor; Jamestown General Hospital's maternity annex opened.

1939- Twelve local plans surveyed by government to produce supplies in wartime; city's new airport formally dedicated.

1940- Robert H. Jackson named U.S. attorney general; PONY league baseball began; Co. E inducted into federal service.

1942- East Second Street widening ordered; flames destroyed old state armory.

1945- Jamestown hit by tornado.

1946- Dr. Carlyle C. Ring named superintendent of schools.

1950- Jamestown Community College opened.

1951- Stanley A. Weeks elected mayor; addition to municipal power plant opened.

1954- Samuel A. Stroth elected mayor; Allegheny airlines began east-west flight via Jamestown.

1955- Carl F. Sanford elected mayor.

1956- Lucy and Desi Arnaz visited Jamestown.

1957- $400,000 runway improvement to Jamestown Municipal Airport.

1958- New sewage disposal plant opened; modernization of Buffalo Street pumping station; new wing opened at Jamestown General Hospital.

1959- Start of Jamestown's new post office.

1960- Jamestown celebrates sesquicentennial of first house erected here; Mohawk Airlines serves Jamestown.

1961- Jamestown Community College moved into new Falconer Street campus. William D. Whitehead elected mayor.

1963- City's first parking ramp opened at Main and Second Streets. Frederick H. Dunn elected mayor. Grandin Mills on Allen Street leveled by fire.

1964- Washington Street Bridge completed.

1965- Mayor Dunn reelected.

1967- Addition to Jamestown High School completed. JCC opened new Science and Engineering Building. Charles B. Magnuson elected mayor. Jamestown native Charles B. Goodell named U.S. Senator.

1968- Addition to James Prendergast Free Library completed.

1969- Cherry Street parking ramp opened. Rail service to Jamestown discontinued by Erie- Lackawanna Railway. Stanley N. Lundine elected mayor. New Gustavus Adolphus Children's Home opened.

1970- Final approval granted for Brooklyn Square Urban Renewal Project.