Agricultural Activities
The development of early Westport included the creation of Euro-American farms on large tracts of fertile land in the southern […]
Agricultural
African American Context, Paul Cuffe
African American Context
African-American residents of Westport played a vital role in the history of the town. The keeping of slaves and indentured […]
Native American
Over view of Native American presence in Westport
Westport’s recorded histories contain numerous references to Native American settlement and activity areas and the existing archaeological record for the […]
Oral Histories
Mabel Crosby Ball interviewed by Mary Giles 1976
This morning, I am making a tape recording of Mabel Crosby in the house she […]
Oral Histories
Mary Hix Brown and Durant Brown interviewed by Mary Giles August 18, 1975
Mary Hix Brown and Durant Brown interviewed by Mary Giles August 18, 1975 Interviewer – Today I am talking with […]
A Westport sampler
Phoebe Baker’s Sampler 1807 From the mid-eighteenth century it was common for young girls to work on samplers as part […]
Contact and Pre Contact, Native American
Contact and Pre Contact Period
Contact Period (1500–1620) The first documented accounts of Native and non-Native interactions along the shores and harbors of Old Dartmouth […]
Agricultural, Twentieth Century
“Use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without”
“Use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without” Born in 1914 and still going strong, Elvira […]
Uncategorized
Splice the Main Brace
A CELEBRATION OF WESTPORT’S WORKING WATERFRONT SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 2013 AT HISTORIC WESTPORT POINT’S LEES WHARF and PAQUACHUCK INN RIGGERS’ […]