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Building Image Location Built Notes Henry Whitfield House: Guilford: 1639 Oldest surviving stone American Colonial house in New England, museum since 1899. [1] Buckingham House: Milford: 1640 Core dates to 1640 modifications in 1725 and 1753. NRHP. [2] [3] Feake-Ferris House: Greenwich: 1645 Core dates to 1645 modifications in 1689. [4] Thomas ...
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 .
New Haven Colony was an English colony from 1638 to 1664 that included settlements on the north shore of Long Island Sound, with outposts in modern-day New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware. [1] The colony joined Connecticut Colony in 1664. [2] The history of the colony was a series of disappointments and failures.
The U.S. state of Connecticut began as three distinct settlements of Puritans from Massachusetts and England; they combined under a single royal charter in 1663.Known as the "land of steady habits" for its political, social and religious conservatism, the colony prospered from the trade and farming of its ethnic English Protestant population.
The Whitfield House served primarily as the home for Henry Whitfield, Dorothy Shaeffe Whitfield, and their nine children. [5] The house also served as a place of worship before the first church was built in Guilford, as a meetinghouse for colonial town meetings, as a protective fort for the settlers in case of attack, and as a shelter for travelers between the New Haven and Saybrook colonies. [7]
Building styles in the 13 colonies were influenced by techniques and styles from England, as well as traditions brought by settlers from other parts of Europe. In New England, 17th-century colonial houses were built primarily from wood, following styles found in the southeastern counties of England. Saltbox style homes and Cape Cod style homes ...
Pages in category "1640 establishments in Connecticut" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. E.
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