| Jamestown | |
| Settlement Type: | Unincorporated community |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: | United States |
| Subdivision Type1: | State |
| Subdivision Name1: | Illinois |
| Subdivision Type2: | County |
| Subdivision Name2: | Clinton |
| Pushpin Map: | Illinois#USA |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location of Jamestown within Illinois |
| Coordinates: | 38.7339°N -89.5144°W |
| Elevation Ft: | 509 |
| Population As Of: | 2000 |
| Population Density Km2: | auto |
| Timezone1: | CST |
| Utc Offset1: | -6 |
| Timezone1 Dst: | CDT |
| Utc Offset1 Dst: | -5 |
| Blank Name: | GNIS feature ID |
| Blank Info: | 411033 |
Jamestown is an unincorporated community located in Clinton County, Illinois, United States.
The first settlement near Jamestown was made in 1817 by John King and his brother-in-law.[1] In the 1840s and 1850s, many German farmers settled in the area. Jamestown itself was founded on June 4, 1850, by William Lenox and James Massey.
There is one church in Jamestown, the St. Paul United Church of Christ. It was founded and constructed by the residents in Jamestown and surrounding areas as the St. Paul's Evangelical Church in 1908. It was primarily a German-speaking church upon its founding due to the demographics at that time, but over the next decades gradually held more and more services in English.[2]