Posted on November 16, 2020 by Jenny ONeill
The Buildout at Westport Point in the 1770s by David C. Cole and Richard Gifford
Until the 1770s, Paquachuck Point (now known as Westport Point or The Point) was little more than open pasture. It was a North-South peninsula surrounded by an estuary with a narrow opening to Buzzards Bay and the Atlantic Ocean at its southwestern most extremity. There was a “way” now known as Main Road that ran […]
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