What happened to Washingtonian Hall?
What happened to Washingtonian Hall after the demise of the Washingtonian Society? Sometime before 1880 it became known as Riverside […]
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Foot Prints in the Sand
This movie created in 1991 is a history of the changes that took place at East Beach and Horseneck […]
African American Context, Paul Cuffe
“Whoso gives the motive, makes his brother’s sin his own.”
Our collection includes a bound set of The Non-Slaveholder, a 19th century publication with a special approach to the anti-slavery […]
Local history articles
Recent Archaeological Excavations at the Waite-Kirby-Potter Site
This article was written by Christa M. Beranek and Katharine M. Johnson Fiske Center for Archaeological Research, University of Massachusetts […]
Local history articles
Kit Houses of Westport
In the early 20th century seven major companies were engaged in the production and sales of “kit homes.” Sears Roebuck […]
Local history articles
Who Was Charlotte White?
We see her name on the street sign in the center of Westport: Charlotte White Road. She is mentioned in […]
Local history articles
Secession – in Westport!
We all learned the word secession in school, and probably associated it with South Carolina’s departure from the Union in […]
Valentine Cards
This collection of 50 cards, including many Valentine cards dating from 1902, was donated to the Westport Historical Society by […]
Civil War register of sick and wounded U.S. General Hospital Portsmouth Grove RI.
An item recently found in the collection is a Civil War register of sick and wounded from Ward No. 4 […]