During Monday’s city council, Mayor Kim Ecklund addressed a series of thefts of historical markers in the city. P-J photo by Sara Holthouse

All throughout the city of Jamestown historical markers and plaques can be seen to mark areas of the city’s history, only now some of them have gone missing.

During a recent City Council work session, Kim Ecklund said she has been approached by members of the Parks Department saying there have been a series of thefts of historical plaques within the city.

“I’ve been made aware by both Mark and Dan from the parks that we have had a series of stolen markers across the city, historical markers,” Ecklund said. “Not the big ones on the poles but the ones such as on rocks, more plaques.”

The historical plaques have gone missing from the Fenton History Center, behind the National Comedy Center and some from a property on Harrison Street. This is not the first time something marking a part of Jamestown’s history has been stolen in the city, including back in 2021 when a statue in Dow Park that was part of a tableau memorializing the Underground Railroad movement was stolen as well. Ecklund asked that the public keep an eye out for more markers being stolen now.

“We’re just asking the public to be cognisant of that,” Ecklund said. “They have engaged obviously with Weitsman and all of those places, but I just want to inform the public that that is happening out there, assuming it is being taken for scrap purposes, but that is presumptuous on my part.”