Westport’s Shipbuilding Challenges
Westport’s Unique Shipbuilding Challenges In the early years, launching boats and conducting business on the Noquochoke (East Branch of the […]
Nineteenth Century, Shipbuilding
Nineteenth Century
Nineteenth Century, Religion, Twentieth Century
The Washingtonians and the Nineteenth-Century Temperance Movement in Westport
Temperance – the campaign to curtail the consumption of alcohol – was an important reform movement in the 19th century. […]
Nineteenth Century
Westport news in the 1860s
The following articles were found in copies of the New Bedford Evening Standard. Topics include the Civil War, fishing at […]
Historic Hurricanes, Nineteenth Century
The Great Gale of September 23, 1815
This storm was the first major hurricane to impact New England in 180 years. It initiated in the West Indies, […]
Historic Hurricanes, Nineteenth Century
The Gale of September 8, 1869
A Category 3, this ‘September Gale’ was first observed in the Bahamas. It ultimately made landfall in Rhode Island just […]
Nineteenth Century, Religion
Cadman’s Neck: Westport’s 19th Century Tented City
Even by Westport’s standards, Cadman’s Neck is off the beaten track. This small promontory of land edging into the east […]
Mills, Nineteenth Century
The Beginnings of the Westport Cotton Manufacturing Company
Bruce White Most accounts of cotton manufacturing in New England describe a progression from the small rural water-powered cotton-spinning operations, […]
Maritime, Nineteenth Century
Whalers into and out of Westport
There are references to sailing into and out of Westport in several whaling logs. We print here
Native American, Nineteenth Century, Religion
Charlotte White “The Pilgrim’s Song”
This poem was written by Charlotte White, half black, half Native American, and was born in 1775. Charlotte White Rd. […]
Maritime, Nineteenth Century
Herman Melville in Westport?
Did Herman Melville ever visit Westport? We will probably never know, but the following item from The Melville Log (Edited […]