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View of West Park, now Columbus Park in downtown Stamford, from a 1906 postcard Bank and Main Streets, from a 1911 postcard. Stamford, Connecticut was inhabited by Siwanoy Native Americans, prior to European colonization beginning in the mid-17th century. Stamford grew rapidly due to industrialization in the late-19th and early-20th century ...
The Stamford History Center was founded in 1901 and incorporated in 1909 as the Stamford Historical Society, Inc. [2] The early collections included mainly agrarian objects such as wooden implements, early furniture, ironware, earthenware, pewter and silver.
Although plural in name, this is a single house in Stamford, Connecticut that was expanded from a first section that dates from 1791. Now predominantly a Georgian style house with a newer Federal style wing, it is the only remainder of the large Stamford Mills complex at the Cove. [9] 4: Deacon John Davenport House: Deacon John Davenport House ...
Stamford's public library, the Ferguson Library, is one of the largest in Connecticut. The library also shows movies and has a used book store run by Friends of Ferguson Library. The library has branches in South End, Springdale, and the Turn of River sections of the city, it also has a bookmobile that runs daily to different neighborhoods.
The Connecticut Colony, originally known as the Connecticut River Colony, was an English colony in New England which later became the state of Connecticut. It was organized on March 3, 1636, as a settlement for a Puritan congregation of settlers from the Massachusetts Bay Colony led by Thomas Hooker .
The Stamford Museum & Nature Center, located in Stamford, Connecticut, is an art, history, nature, and agricultural sciences museum. The property covers 118 acres (c. 48 hectares) beginning about half a mile north of the Merritt Parkway .
Robert Coe (1596 – bef. 1690) was an early English settler, public official, and a founder of five towns in Connecticut and New York: Wethersfield, Stamford, Hempstead, Elmhurst, and Jamaica. Coe took passage from England to the Americas in 1634 during the Puritan migration to New England.
Barnum's wife, Betsey Hoyt Barnum, was a descendant of the house's builder, Samuel Hoyt, and it remained with Betsey Hoyt Barnum's descendants until 1922. The Stamford Historical Society, now known as the Stamford History Center, purchased the Hoyt-Barnum house from a local bank in 1942, opening it to the public in 1950. [3]