![]() In the barn and the main building, the Little Compton Historical Society, headquartered there, has amassed a vast collection of, it seems, every conceivable tool and device that folks used brim cleaning their teeth to milking their cows, and they are displayed in setting characteristic of their time. Little Compton's most acclaimed artists, Sidney Burleigh, brought It ashore in 1906 and made it his studio. Among other structures is an old cat boat, Peggotty, once a small gaff-rigged sail boat that ferried produce and eight or ten passengers across the Providence River to Aquidneck Island, site of Portsmouth, Middletown and Newport. An old sign in the shed, which might have been posted where you might see a Rotary sign today, proclaims Little Compton the Poultry Capital of the World. So celebrated is this hen that it is officially memorialized with a monument in a village nearby, the town's only creature, human or bird, so honored. They conceived the Rhode Island Red Hen, which lays only. Indeed, Little Compton and Wilbor family farmers may well have been the American colonies' first masters of genetic engineering. This is cedar-shingled, pine farm house primarily, with eight outbuildings including a vast barn, a replica of a one-room community school house and a shed for feeding and nurturing chickens. But we found a reason in the little heralded Wilbor House Museum, the core of which one Samuel Wilbor built in 1690 and that generations of Wilbors (and Wilburs, and Wilbers and other descendants of their English forbear Wild Bore, or Boar) expanded so that each section is characteristic of design and lifestyles of each of its centuries, evolving, for example, from chamber pots to an outhouse, to primitive indoor plumbing-a well under the house from which the cook could pump water directly into the kitchen sink. Sit with the family at night around the fire pit.Little Compton is so remote, 20-some miles east of Fall River, MA, out on a peninsula on the Atlantic, without hotels and scenery mainly of 100 miles of early settler-built stone walls, that you need a real reason to go, a funeral perhaps. Rinse off from the beach in the outdoor shower. There is a finished walk out basement with a ping pong table, comfy couches and a TV. The breakfast table overlooks the ocean and seats 6. The kitchen has been remodeled with stainless steel appliances and granite counter tops. There are two stairways by which the second floor can be accessed. Watch the sunrise over the ocean from two of the bedrooms upstairs, the kitchen and the three season room. ![]() Upstairs, you will find the bedrooms and office space. The living room has a gas fireplace and the three season living area overlooking the pond and ocean. There is also a front deck, allowing you and guests to enjoy both morning and afternoon light. There are beautiful hardwood floors throughout and large windows that allow plenty of natural light in to the entire home. This 4,000 square foot home has three large bedrooms, three full bathrooms and two half baths. Sit with the family on the spacious back porch overlooking the ocean. Sit on your own private shore front, or walk minutes down the street to South Shore/Goosewing Beach. The property is nine acres including a large backyard, a marsh area & pond with a boardwalk leading down to the beachfront. This beautiful Beach House sits up on the hill overlooking Buzzards Bay and Vineyard Sound.
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