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Easton is a town in Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States. As of the 2020 census , [ 3 ] the population was 7,605. Easton contains the historic district of Aspetuck and the Plattsville census-designated place .
The Stratfield-Easton route was designated as State Highway 306. In 1932, the state overhauled its highway numbering system. Most of old Highway 306 was renumbered as part of Route 59. Instead of turning west on Center Street in Easton center, Route 59 continued northwest to meet Westport Road (now Route 136).
On April 25, 1777, during the Revolutionary War, British soldiers under the command of General William Tryon marched up the Redding Road, which paralleled present-day Route 58 south of Easton center and ran along Route 58 north of Easton center, on their way to Danbury to destroy homes, warehouses and ammunition stores as part of the Danbury Raid.
Map of Fairfield County, Connecticut labeling types of municipalities by color. Towns in light green, Cities in Red, and Boroughs in Dark Red Map of Fairfield County, Connecticut showing cities, boroughs, towns, and CDPs. Note: Villages are named localities within towns, but have no separate corporate existence from the towns they are in.
Route 58 near Easton: Route 59 near Easton — 1963 Center Street; decommissioned in exchange for creating the current Route 106 Route 106: 14.37: 23.13 I-95/US 1 in Stamford: Route 53 in Wilton: 1963: current Route 107: 7.50: 12.07 US 7 in Georgetown: Route 58 in Redding: 1932: current Route 108: 11.05: 17.78 US 1 in Stratford
Modern Route 136 in Westport and Easton was the southern portion of an early 19th-century public turnpike known as the Branch Turnpike, which was incorporated in 1831. [2] The road ran from Wesport center, through Easton center and the Upper Stepney section of Monroe , to the Housatonic River at Bennett's Bridge in Newtown , and collected tolls ...
Route 15 is a state highway in the U.S. state of Connecticut that runs 83.53 miles (134.43 km) from a connection with New York's Hutchinson River Parkway in Greenwich, Connecticut, to its northern terminus intersecting with Interstate 84 (I-84) in East Hartford, Connecticut.
It is primarily in the town of Easton, with a portion extending south across the Mill River into Fairfield. The Merritt Parkway forms the southeast border of the CDP, and Connecticut Route 59 (Sport Hill Road in Easton and Easton Turnpike in Fairfield) runs north–south through it. Plattsville was first listed as a CDP prior to the 2020 census.