The lobby of the Westport Weston Family YMCA is a busy place.
A constant stream of members check in, leave, and ask questions at the front desk.
People sit in the comfortable chairs. They use laptops, read newspapers, feed their little kids.
It’s easy to overlook the grandfather clock, sitting quietly (except for noon, when it gongs) in the corner to the right of the front doors.
But Lynn Wilson, Richard Hyman, Andrew Colabella, Lois Himes, Matt McGrath and Jalna Jaeger all know exactly where the tall clock is. And they all chimed in, to identify it as the subject of last week’s Photo Challenge. (Click here to see.)
Here’s this week’s image. If you know where in Westport you’d see it, click “Comments” below.
(Photo/Seth Braunstein)
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Cemetery entrance at Kings Highway and Rte. 33
The cemetery at Kings Highway and Wilton Road?
At the entrance to the cemetery- Kings Highway and Wilton Rd.
Kings Highway N. Entrance to Kings Highway Cemetery
At the entrance to the little cemetery on the hill between King’s Highway and Route 33 – Wilton Road. At the stoplight.
Not fair… everyone know this on because they endlessly wait for the light at Wilton Rd and Kings Highway.
Kings Highway N cemetery
This can be found at the old cemetery at intersection of Wilton Road and Kingshighway. I’ve often wondered how one could visit this cemetery as it doesn’t seem to have an entrance accessible to cars.
Park at the Willows medical complex across the street, then take your life in your hands as you cross Wilton Road.
Cemetery – Kings Highway and Rte. 33
kings highway North and Wilton rd cemetery.
Our “06880” readers — including a few who no longer live here — know your cemeteries well. This is indeed the one near the Kings Highway North/Wilton Road intersection. RIP!
lol. I was just stuck there for 61 seconds.
is it getting longer????
Old cemetery at Old Kings Hwy & Wilton Road
Kings Highway Cemetery
The entrance to the very old cemetery at Kings Highway and Wilton Rd
q? Is this Westport’s oldest Cemetary ? Are there any well known Westporters buried there ?
Here’s a story on its history: https://06880danwoog.com/2024/07/23/kings-highway-cemetery-history-hidden-in-plain-sight/
I’m guessing the original Green’s Farms Congregational Church cemetery (corner of Greens Farms Road and Sherwood Island connector) is older.
Correct- sort of: the Lower Greens Farms Burying Ground is known to be the oldest. However, the burying ground at Burying Hill Beach is actually the oldest – it’s just that the town disappeared the last of the grave markers when it acquired the property. Not too cool. But there it is.
Greens farm church lower cemetery is oldest 1711
For many, many years, the King Street Burying Ground was cared for by the Westport Garden Club. This arrangement was made with the property’s owner, the Town of Westport. Given the site’s obvious state of advanced decline, I’m thinking that the Garden Club is no longer involved. As the property is within the bounds of a Local Historic District, its disposition is largely the responsibility of the Westport Historic District Commission. In any event, this fragile and failing historic resource has repeatedly been the subject of public concern in recent years – not that any of that appears to matter.
Of course it matters… however what is baffling to many is the cognitive dissonance between an administration’s avowed purpose of making Westport an attractive “destination” and the obvious neglect of so many of the historic and iconic features that could indeed enhance Westport’s attraction and status: the sadly neglected Baron’s south open space, the inauthentic and substandard repairs to the historically significant Cribari Bridge, the cemetery holding Westport’s past… how can Westporters endorse current planning when they see the neglect suffered by current town properties.
I’m with Mr. Herbst!
That cemetery at the corner of Kings Highway North and RT 33 ( Wilton Road)
I think it’s at the cemetery on kings highway
It is on the left side of Kings Highway South going towards the intersection of KHS and Route 33 at the traffic light. Fort Apache is on the other side of this intersection.
It looks like the style of Robert Garrett Thew, who had a studio on Roseville Road. Robert’s son, John Garrett Thew (my Sea Scout skipper), shared that studio with his dad. John later moved to Norfolk, CT where, at the age of 98, is only partly retired. John is widely known for his copper weathervanes.
Kings Highway Colonial Cemetery, at the corner of Kings Highway North and Wilton Road.
Cemetery at rt57 and Kings Hwy North
The entrance to that strange and cool little historical cemetery tucked away on a little hill at the intersection of kings highway/ Wilton rd/ etc. – love it ! So weird and special and magical!
It is the stone post at the top of the three stone steps leading into the Kings Highway Cemetery aka Old Burial Ground on the corner of Kings Highway North and Wilton Road.