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The Fairfield Historic District encompasses the historic town center of Fairfield, Connecticut, roughly along Old Post Road between U.S. Route 1 and Turney Road. The area contains Fairfield's town hall, public library, and houses dating from the late 18th century, and includes portions of the town's earliest colonial settlement area.
Probably more accurately, however, town history attributes the name to John Read, [8] an early major landholder who was a prominent lawyer in Boston as well as a former Congregationalist preacher who converted to Anglicanism. Read helped in demarcating the boundaries of the town and in getting it recognized as a parish of Fairfield [9] in 1729 ...
The Fairfield Museum's goal is to promote civic engagement by celebrating the diverse history of its region and its people. [2] The 13,000-square-foot Museum features exhibition galleries, a special collection research library and reading room, an education classroom, an 80 seat meeting hall overlooking Fairfield's Town Green, and a shop.
Fairfield is a town in Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States. It borders the city of Bridgeport and towns of Trumbull, Easton, Weston, and Westport along the Gold Coast of Connecticut. As of 2020, the town had a population of 61,512. [3] The town is part of the Greater Bridgeport Planning Region.
Historic district that includes a row of 12 nineteenth-century houses on Boston Post Road, and a town hall and a Greek Revival church. [18] 14: Bradley Edge Tool Company Historic District: Bradley Edge Tool Company Historic District: November 22, 1995 : Roughly, Lyons Plains Rd. north and south of its junction with White Birch Rd.
The Southport Historic District in the town of Fairfield, Connecticut is a 225-acre (91 ha) area historic district that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971. It preserves a portion of the modern neighborhood and former borough of Southport, Connecticut .
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Fronting a central green is the First Church of Christ, a Congregational church built in 1837 in the Greek Revival style that was the first religious organization established in Redding, obtaining permission in 1729 from Fairfield church leaders to establish a separate parish. Also facing the green is Redding's old town hall, built in 1834 and ...