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As
we toil through the thousands of pictures and postcards, we uncover some
pretty interesting
tidbits of information and historical accounts of events in this area.
We will continue to re-publish these stories and accompanying photos on
an on-going basis...
Our latest featured
articles are:
Facts,
Hearsay and Memories...
The Macomber Family of Central Village
Read
this first person account about life in Westport at the beginning of the
20th century...
Originally
hand written By Marianna Macomber, and later typed By Margaret (Macomber)
Douglas in 1970.
Clang,
Clang, When the Trolley Ding, Ding, Ding, Went the Bell
Long
before super highways and jet airliners, the short lived but well loved
electric railways dominated the scene. Almost every American City and
town from the late 1880's to the 1930's was marked by the steel strips
of the trolley track.
Previous
articles include:
Hix's
Bridge
As
early as 1686 there were indications that residents found means of crossing
the Westport river at the present location of Hix's bridge due to the
fact that roads ran from either side...
1954
Hurricane Rescue at Westport Point
Reprinted
from The Fall River Herald News
Wednesday, September1, 1954
Rescuers in bobbing skiffs defied the storm
to save three lives at Westport Point...
Old
Crump's Tavern
Old
Crump's Tavern, also called "Half Way House" was located in
Tiverton on main road from Newport to Fall River...
Indian
Clambakes
In
the days when the Wampanoag Indians claimed this section of the country
and later when they first sold portions of it to the white men, they journeyed
each year from their winter quarters on the shores of Mount Hope Bay to
a place near Westport Point called in recent years Cape Bial - here to
hold their annual clambake.
Rum
Running
Reprinted
from The Westport News
Tuesday August 31, 1976
Prohibition
- when the country was legally "dry" - is long behind us, and even the
very thought of it is archaic to many people under 40....
History
of Coxet, and the Richmond family
By Henry Worth
In the southwest corner of Westport, Mass. is a triangular
tract of land bounded west by Little Compton, R.I., east by the Westport
River, and extending from Adamsville, R.I., to the sea. Originally it
was part of Seconet which became Little Compton, R.I., but in 1741 when
the Imperial Decree changed the boundary between Mass. and R.I. this triangle
was annexed to Dartmouth, Mass.
Deed
for Westport
Read the Deed from 1654 where the local indians "sold"
the land to the English, for things such as "eight moose skins"
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