The Port Washington Public Library Local History Center collects and preserves our town’s heritage and makes it available to the public at the library and online.  We house photographs, manuscript collections, oral histories, maps, and folk arts projects.  Please visit

Life on the Bay, in photos, video, and oral history excerpts.

Adding to the themes of my previous posts on historic automobiles and yachting, I have chosen this time to focus on aviation, an important subject in the history of Port Washington. This photograph, taken in 1919, captures a young boy

Taken at the Littig House Community Center.  Photo by Dorothea Hahn.