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Title: Memories of Old Westport
Description: Mention of the home of William Bernard built by himself "on the same tract of land" in Westport as Colonel A. G. Boone's home.
Date: 1924-10
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Memories of Old Westport
Description: Reminiscences of 1830s and 1840s Westport, including some early and "first" settlers, residences, churches, marriages, etc., including the general lifestyle and a visit in 1838 from John A Sutter from his later successful California gold mine.
Date: 1924-10
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Memories of Old Westport
Description: Mention of the wedding of Peter Behan to Ann Harris around 1840, "out in the country, on the present site of the Westport Junior High School."
Date: 1924-10
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Memories of Old Westport
Description: Description of the Harris House Hotel and Yoacham Tavern in pioneer Westport as firsts of their kind there.
Date: 1924-10
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Memories of Old Westport
Description: Description of William Chick as the city's first postmaster and one paragraph about possibly the first "brick house. ..built before 1836, as Colonel William Miles Chick, who moved to the county in that year occupied it as his first residence here," with Albert Boone's house "about a block to the north." Same site "later known as the Alex Waskey farm."
Date: 1924-10
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Boston Adams, a Gentleman of the Old School
Description: Biography of T. M. "Boston" Adams, or T. M. Adams, a New England-bred owner of a Southern style plantation in part of what later become Swope Park in the mid-1800s. Tells of his large estate and, based out of Westport, hunting expeditions with British nobles, with recollections about related Westport settings by the author, Nellie McCoy Harris, or Nellie Harris.
Date: 1971-06
Object Type: Magazine Article