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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.
Pages in category "Companies based in Fairfield County, Connecticut" The following 55 pages are in this category, out of 55 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Location of Fairfield County in Connecticut. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below may be ...
Chelsea Courier, W., Nov. 30, 1796-May 24, 1798 [13] The Courier , W., May 31, 1798-Mar. 15, 1800 [ 13 ] The Oxford English Dictionary attests the first recorded use of the term " Hello " to The Courier in 1826.
A local commission enforces preservation rules in the district (and also in two other historic districts in the town of Fairfield). Alterations to properties in the district have to be approved. A case where a Greek Revival mansion owner placed a large sculpture on the grounds went all the way to the U.S. supreme court in 2007.
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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]
The earliest recorded event in Southport's history was "The Great Swamp Fight" or "Fairfield Swamp Fight" of July 1637 (not to be confused with the later Great Swamp Fight of King Philip's War), an episode of the Pequot War in which English colonial forces led by John Mason and Roger Ludlow vanquished a band of 80 to 100 Pequot Indians who had ...