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July 2, 1787
- Despite objections, the Legislature approved the separation, and on July 2, 1787, Westport was incorporated.
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Dec 30, 2015 · Westport’s independence was triggered by New Bedford’s split from Dartmouth. On September 27, 1786, a petition by 11 residents of the eastern portion of Dartmouth requested a meeting to “vote off Acushnet Village to be incorporated into a separate town.”.
Westport is one of Ireland’s few planned towns. An estate town, it was built according to designs set out by famous Georgian architect James Wyatt in the 1780s. The town was commissioned by the first Earl of Altamont, John Browne of the nearby stately home, Westport House, as a place for his workers and tenants to live.
Colonial Settlement. The first English settlers of Connecticut were from the Massachusetts Bay Colony, founding the Connecticut River Valley towns of Windsor, Wethersfield, and Hartford in 1635. In 1636, the General Court of Massachusetts appointed the first governing body of what would become the Connecticut Colony.
The town of Westport is located in Grays Harbor County, on the south shore of Grays Harbor. Originally home to a large Chehalis tribal village, the Native peoples were decimated by a smallpox outbreak, and then forced onto a reservation about 60 miles inland.
The town took on the name of Peterson, named for the first long-standing non-Indian settlers. In 1891, the name was changed to Westport. Westport's Life Saving Station. One of the most enduring additions to Westport came as a result of the formation of the national Life-Saving Service, in 1871.
The Town Seal depicts Westport as it existed in 1835 looking west over the State Street Bridge (currently known as the Ruth Steinkraus Cohen Memorial Bridge). It is taken from an illustration in John Warner Barber’s book, the Connecticut Historical Collections, published in 1836.
Feb 8, 2024 · Launched by the Westport Historical Society, the map is free, and you can pick up a copy at the Westport Free Public Library (408 Old County Rd.) or Partners Village Store (865 Main Rd.).
