Westport's stories run from the shore to the easel. They'll tell you the town was once the Onion Capital, and that the Saugatuck once carried more shipping than you'd ever guess from its quiet drawbridge today. They'll tell you that around 1920 a young writer named F. Scott Fitzgerald rented a house on Compo Road South, and that the Sound-shore world he found here is bound up with the one he would later put into The Great Gatsby. And along the old Post Road, mid-century travelers knew Westport by a roadside landmark — the Clam Box, a seafood stop whose sign and silhouette are pure New England. Onions, artists, redcoats, and a writer on the shore: that's Westport.
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
- Spend a day at Compo Beach, the town's Sound-front park, and find the Minute Man statue on the bluff above the 1777 landing site.
- Walk the Saugatuck River waterfront and the historic Saugatuck village, the colonial shipping center the town grew from.
- Catch a show at the Westport Country Playhouse, founded in 1931 in a converted 1835 tannery, or a summer concert at the Levitt Pavilion.
- Browse downtown Main Street and the river walk, with shops and galleries near the water.
- Visit Sherwood Island State Park, Connecticut's first state park, in the Greens Farms section of town.
- Read up at the Westport Library before exploring the town's deep arts-colony history.
