As the repository of the community’s history, the museum welcomes and encourages donations that are visual reminders of the area’s past. In 2021, we received four donations that showcase Woods ...
The Charles W. Morgan was built in New Bedford in 1841 and is the only surviving 19th century wooden whaling ship in the world. In her over 80 years of service, she sailed the South Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Oceans and brought home a total of 54,483 barrels of sperm whale and other whale oil and 152,934 pounds of whalebone.
Have you ever wondered about the diversity of industries in Woods Hole? Whaling ships were built at the present WHOI dock, a guano (fertilizer) factory was on Long Neck (Penzance ...
Little Harbor has often been at the center of Woods Hole’s history over the past few centuries, from science to ferries, saltworks, and the lighthouse service. The first European settlers ...
In 1982, the Massachusetts Historical Commission placed the Woods Hole School building on the National Register of Historic Places, the only building in the village so recognized. That was the ...
Getting ice cream on a hot summer day has been a favorite for generations of Woods Hole kids. The building housing the Cap’n Kidd was once a well-loved ice cream ...
By Robert W. Griffin. There are nearly 1,400 streets, roads, avenues, boulevards, courts, lanes, ways, paths, places and circles in Falmouth. How they got their names is sometimes obvious, sometimes ...
“Quissett and Woods Hole, we love our Fourth of July Parades” wrote Jean Bigelow in the summer 2002 issue of Spritsail and for seven decades, this statement has held true ...
The 1880S in Woods Hole and What Happened in Later Years - In 1992, the Woods Hole Historical Collection published "The Diary of Ruth Anna Hatch." It remained a very ...
A fish market business (wholesale and retail) was founded in 1874 by Isaiah Spindell and Azariah Crowell to supply the Pacific Guano Company with small fish called menhaden, part ...