Hotel Westport

A recent donation to the collection: This small pamphlet advertises the wonders of Hotel Westport located at Westport Point, MA, at the top of Hotel Hill. Only a portion of the hotel survives today. Here is the text from the pamphlet: Hotel Westport, Westport Point, Bristol County, Massachusetts 1894—FIFTH SEASON—1894 Opens June 15th. HOTEL WESTPORT, […]

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Bojuma Farm by Sandy Lawton

One June afternoon at the age of seven in 1955, my mother and I were picking daffodils at the end of our east laneway. Our house was located at 47 Howland Road across from the Acoaxet Chapel. In the distance we heard a tractor coming up the Cross road and turning onto Howland Road. As […]

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Memories of Bojuma Farm

 Harry Bryan  2025      I worked at Bojuma Farm in the summers of 1961 and 1962.   We lived about a mile from the farm and my Raleigh bicycle was my commuting vehicle.  My first job in the morning was to shift an electric fence to make a new part of a field available to the […]

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Gifford Road Farm, painting by Clifford W. Ashley

WHS 2012.024.001 This painting by noted artist and author Clifford W. Ashley captures a Westport farming scene in the 1930’s. The farm, owned by the Benoit family, was located on Gifford Road, north of the Ferry farm. According to Vivian Benoit Coutinho, Clifford Ashley discovered the farm by chance: “he would come every morning, same […]

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