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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: The First Baptist Church of Westport
Description: Mention of the First Baptist Church of Westport in a description of its merging with another church.
Date: 1924-10
Object Type: Magazine Article