15 Drift Road

#15 Drift Road (c. 1830). This Cape was the home of Charles Chase, one of the last whaling captains in the area. He was well known among the youth of the Head into the 1930s and 40s for his exciting tales of whaling. In the nineteenth century the house was owned by Captain Jonathan P. Tripp, who carried coal to New England from Chesapeake Bay ports in his four-masted ship Marguerite. The captain’s son, Louis Tripp, with his wife Eleanor, bought and preserved the Handy House, now owned by the Westport Historical Society