Where the British came ashore — and the minutemen met them on the way back. On the morning of April 25, 1777, some eighteen hundred British troops landed on the Long Island Sound shore at Compo Beach and marched inland to burn the Continental supply depot at Danbury. On their retreat to the ships, the local militia caught them at the Battle of Compo Hill. More than a century later the town raised a Minute Man on the bluff above the beach to remember the men who stood there. That shore is the heart of Westport, Connecticut — a town that grew up around the Saugatuck River shipping village, became a noted onion-farming center, and then turned into one of America's great arts colonies.
Today Westport is known for its beaches, its theater, and a shoreline elegance that has never lost its Revolutionary bones. Its story blends a colonial shipping village, the 1777 landing at Compo, an 1835 town, an onion-farming past, and an arts colony that drew the country's illustrators and players. Our Westport designs gather that identity into wearable form — Compo Beach, the Minute Man, the Saugatuck, the Sound. Explore the collection and carry a little of the Westport shore with you.
Why People Visit Westport Connecticut
Westport draws people who love the shore, the arts, and a good story. It is a Revolutionary-War landing site with a Minute Man on the beach, a colonial shipping village turned arts colony, and a Long Island Sound shoreline of beaches, river, and marsh. Visitors come for the rare mix — history you can stand on at Compo, theater and music in the summer, and a refined New England coast an easy train ride from New York.
