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Stamford's old downtown has been not so much gentrified as eliminated. In its place has come an injection of high-rise energy into the midst of Fairfield County's otherwise placid suburban landscape. From the Connecticut Turnpike, Stamford now provides a vista that more closely resembles a new city in the Sun Belt than an old city in the Northeast.
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 .
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.
Robert Coe (1596 – bef. 1690) was an early English settler, public official, and a founder of five towns in Connecticut and New York: Wethersfield, Stamford, Hempstead, Elmhurst, and Jamaica. Coe took passage from England to the Americas in 1634 during the Puritan migration to New England .
Along with other founders of Connecticut, he likely attended the meeting that resulted in the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut. In 1640, Warde, Robert Coe, and eighteen others founded and settled the plantation of Toquams (later called Stamford) that had recently been purchased from the Natives. There he was the Constable (1642) and then ...
Connecticut Colony also based its claims on conquest. Following the end of the Pequot War in 1638, Connecticut had signed a treaty with the Massachusetts Bay Colony and the Mohegan and Narragansett tribes ceding all of the Pequot lands to Connecticut. The English also rejected the claim that Hudson's discovery secured the area for the Dutch ...
In 1636, Francis and Ann moved from Watertown to Wethersfield, Connecticut Colony. In 1657, Francis and Ann with their four children moved from Wethersfield to Stamford, Connecticut. He was one of the earliest settlers in Stamford. Richard Holmes bought his Norwalk lot on 12 October 1657, from Alexander Bryan of Milford. [1]
The district encompasses what was one of Stamford's first planned residential developments, developed by Herman Henneberg and his son-in-law Henry Jevne, with many houses designed by Lawrence Barnard. The result was a remarkable concentration of fairly uniformly-designed Colonial Revival and Tudor Revival houses in a three-block area.