Posted on March 13, 2023 by Jenny ONeill
In April 2020 we asked for Westport residents to report on their experiences of the Coivd-19 pandemic which was in its early stages. These are the comments made by 8 individuals Can you describe how your personal situation has changed since the Covid-19 crisis hit our world? Do you remember the day when you realized […]
Continue ReadingPosted on March 3, 2023 by Jenny ONeill
Dr. Thomas Richmond 1811 to 1845 WHS 2004.170.026 The Practice of Medicine in Westport from 1811 to 1843 The Westport doctor of one hundred years ago was Dr. Thomas Richmond, who came to Westport from Dighton to practice medicine. Shortly after Richmond settled in Westport, he married Miss Mary Sherman of Swansea. Dr. Richmond’s grandfather, […]
Continue ReadingPosted on February 27, 2023 by Jenny ONeill
For Women’s History Month, we highlight artist Betsey Douglas Macdonald, the creator of the popular series of posters commemorating the Westport Harvest Festival. The original watercolors from this series form part of the Westport Historical Society’s collection. The limited-edition posters adorn walls of many Westport homes (as well as Lees Market) and are sought-after collectors’ […]
Continue ReadingPosted on February 23, 2023 by Jenny ONeill
Written and researched by Richard Gifford This research is ongoing. Please contact Westport Historical Society with comments/questions. GENEALOGICAL TABLES (SIMPLIFIED) — Individuals with Biographical Entries in Boldface Type QUEBBIN-WAINER Dorcas (—) married Nathaniel Quebbin Resided: Slocum’s Neck, Dartmouth –Margaret Quebbin married (—) Wainer Resided: Division Road, Dartmouth —Michael Wainer (ca1748-1815) m. 3) […]
Continue ReadingPosted on February 22, 2023 by Jenny ONeill
Video of Westport Little League Reunion February 25, 2023 We were young baseball players from a small town in Massachusetts, driven by the love of playing baseball and inspired by our heroes, who played at Fenway Park. When we started winning we didn’t realize it would lead to a state championship. At the time, […]
Continue ReadingPosted on February 21, 2023 by Jenny ONeill
West. Trafford and Co. Wonderful Discovery West Trafford’s Wonderful Discovery and Brownell’s Kidney Medicine. The former here sketched life size is of clear glass with a ball neck. Gus Gonet, local authority on bottles, dates it sometime early in the last third of the 19th century. Whether West and Trafford’s Discovery soothed internally or externally […]
Continue ReadingPosted on December 30, 2022 by Jenny ONeill
Fragments of Westport’s History Preserved in Scrapbooks The Westport Historical Society’s scrapbook collection includes more than 30 volumes, amounting to more than 1000 pages. Many of the scrapbooks have been digitized for easy access via our online collections database. The collection provides a valuable miscellany of local news, spanning a timeframe from the late 1800’s […]
Continue ReadingPosted on December 27, 2022 by Jenny ONeill
By Donald M. Allen (March 13, 1926 – December 17, 2022) My name is Donald Macomber Allen, and I was born in Fall River, Massachusetts in 1926. As my name indicates, most of my ancestors were from southeastern Massachusetts, and some were born in Westport, MA. From about 1911 to 1964, some of my close […]
Continue ReadingPosted on December 13, 2022 by Jenny ONeill
Revealing their unique recipe for success! Have you ever suffered from a case of food nostalgia – a yearning for tastes and flavors from the past and especially for food produced by a local business that is no longer in operation? Many Westporters of a certain age may suffer from this condition of food nostalgia […]
Continue ReadingPosted on December 7, 2022 by Jenny ONeill
In the latter part of the 19th century, two wealthy men from Brooklyn NY bought land and built large houses and outbuildings at Westport Point, Massachusetts. They were the Hall and Southard families and their estates ran from Main Road to the West Branch of the Westport River, just north of the village. The Rev. […]
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