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The Fairfield Museum and History Center is a museum and research library located at 370 Beach Road in Fairfield, Connecticut. [1] Established in 2007 by the 103 year old Fairfield Historical Society, the Fairfield Museum. The Fairfield Museum's goal is to promote civic engagement by celebrating the diverse history of its region and its people. [2]
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.
Notable buildings include the Blackwell-Carter-Midyette House (1850s), Dr. Patrick Simmons House (1871), Carter~Holton-Sears House (c. 1890), Fairfield Methodist Episcopal Church (1877), E. S. O'Neal And Sons Store, Calhoun Brown Store, Fairfield Cemetery Pavilion, and Carter-Swindell House (1870s).
Fairfield was one of the two principal settlements of the Connecticut Colony in southwestern Connecticut (the other was Stratford).The town line with Stratford was set in May 1661 by John Banks, an early Fairfield settler, Richard Olmstead, and Lt. Joseph Judson, who were both appointed as a committee by the Colony of Connecticut. [6]
Presently, the house serves as a museum for the Fairfield Historical Society, [3] which also operates the Fairfield Museum and History Center. At one time the Ogden House was owned by art and antiques dealer Mary Allis , who turned it into a showcase for eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century American folk paintings and furniture.
The architecture of the district consists primarily of buildings constructed after 1779 when the British virtually destroyed Fairfield. It is a valuable concentration of Greek Revival and Victorian structures which were for the most part the homes of substantial men whose wealth came from their involvement in commerce, banking, and shipping."
The Cotton-Smith House is a historic house at 42 High Street in Fairfield, Maine.Built in 1890, it is one of Fairfield's finest Queen Anne Victorian houses. It was built by Joseph Cotton, owner of the Maine Manufacturing Company, which produced iceboxes, and occupied by him for just four years.
Fairfield is a township in far northwestern Essex County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. As of the 2020 United States census , the township's population was 7,872, [ 9 ] [ 10 ] an increase of 406 (+5.4%) from the 2010 census count of 7,466, [ 19 ] [ 20 ] which in turn reflected an increase of 403 (+5.7%) from the 7,063 counted in the 2000 ...