Fairfield

Buildings Index (Scroll Down for Southport)

Beach Road
148 First Congregational Church (1892)
249 Isaac Tucker House (1766)
289 Justin Hobart House (1765)
290 Moorlands (1836)
303 Nathan Bulkley House (1750)
349 Ebenezer Bulkley House (1750)

Bronson Road
1520 David Ogden House (1750)
2970 Fairfield Country Day School (1891)
3015 Bronson Windmill (1894)
3171 Rev. Seth Pomeroy House (1757)
3192 Greenfield Hill Congregational Church Parsonage (1874)
3237 Isaac Milbank House (1882)

Meeting House Lane
39 Rev. Richard Varick Dey House (1823)
75 Nichols House (1893)
105 Zalmon Bradley House (1750)

Jennings Road
506 Gen. Gold Selleck Silliman House (1756)

King’s Highway West
909 John Osborne House (1673)

Mill Plain Road
449 Sturges Cottage (1840)

Old Academy Road
1045 Greenfield Hill Congregational Church (1855)

Old Post Road
611 Old Town Hall (1794)
636 (1954)
661 St. Paul’s Episcopal Church (1856)
739 Thaddeus Burr Homestead (1790)

Town Green
Old Academy (1804)
Sun Tavern (1780)

Long Island Sound
Penfield Reef Lighthouse (1874)

Southport

Center Street
212 Francis Jelliff House (1839)

Harbor Road
418 Mrs. Zalmon Wakeman House (1871)
450 Samuel Bradley House (1715)
494 Allen Nichols House (1848)
564 Charles Perry House (1823)
608 Henry Sturges House (1834)
648 Wakeman Memorial (1913)
668-670 Miah Perry/Nehemiah Jenning Block (1787)
712 Austin Perry House (1830)
750 Oliver H. Perry House (1843)
780 Gurdon Perry House (1830)
824 William Bulkley House (1766)

Main Street
52 E. Thorp House (1792)
139 Charles M. Gilman House (1873)
176 Moses Bulkeley House (1861)
214 Pequot School (1917)
226 Southport Savings Bank (1865)
227 Southport National Bank (1833)
252 Hall Block (1895)

Pequot Avenue
524 Southport Congregational Church (1875)
651 Trinity Episcopal Church (1862)
651 Trinity Parish Chapel (1872)
658 Mrs. Benjamin Pomeroy House (1869)
678 Francis D. Perry House (1832)
720 Pequot Library (1893)

Rose Hill Road
35 Southport Telephone Exchange (1912)

Station Street
96 Southport Eastbound Railroad Station (1884)

Westway Road
25 Wakeman B. Meeker House (1855)
45 Henry Perry House (1832)
67 Simon C. Sherwood House (1884)

Willow Street
72 Paul King Sheffield House (1796)

Links

Fairfield Museum and History Center
https://www.fairfieldhistory.org/

Highlights of Fairfield’s History
http://www.fairfieldct.org/history.htm

Southport Conservancy
http://southportconservancy.org/

Pequot Library
http://www.pequotlibrary.com/

Fairfield University
http://www.fairfield.edu/

Books

The history of Fairfield, Fairfield County, Connecticut, from the settlement of the town in 1639 to 1818, Vol. I (1889), by Elizabeth Hubbell Schenck

The history of Fairfield, Fairfield County, Connecticut, from 1700 to 1800, Vol. II (1905), by Elizabeth Hubbell Schenck

Fairfield Ancient and Modern; A brief account historic and descriptive of a famous Connecticut town; prepared in commemoration of the two hundred and seventieth anniversary of the town’s settlement (1909), by Frank Samuel Child

A country Parish: Ancient Parsons and Modern Incidents (1915), by Frank Samuel Child

The old burying ground of Fairfield, Conn. (1882), by Kate E. Perry

An historic mansion, being an account of the Thaddeus Burr homestead, Fairfield, Connecticut, 1654-1915 (1915), by Frank S. Child

Early recollections of Fairfield life (1913), by William Burr

The completion of two centuries; A Discourse Preached in Fairfield on Thanksgiving Day, November 28, 1839 (1839), by Lyman H. Atwater

Centennial commemoration of the burning of Fairfield, Connecticut: by the British troops under Governor Tryon, July 8, 1779 (1879)

The One hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the Consociatons, Fairfield East and Fairfield West, with the Historical Address, and other addresses and Proceedings, at the Congregational Church, Fairfield, Conn., June 8, 1886 (1886)

An old New England church: established religion in Connecticut; being an historical sketch of the First Church of Christ and the prime ancient society, Fairfield, commemorating the two hundred and seventieth anniversary of public worship in the town (1910), by Frank Samuel Child

Roger Ludlowe; and historical sketch prepared by John H. Perry, for his associates in the Fairfield historical society at the observance of the two hundred and seventy fifth anniversary of the founding of the town, 1914 (1914)

Southport

The Southport Congregational church, Southport, Connecticut, March 7, 1843-November 30, 1915; an historical sketch, together with the confession, the covenant, the by-laws and lists of the pastors, deacons, members, and baptized children (1915)

Annals of an old parish; historical sketches of Trinity church, Southport, Connecticut, 1725 to 1848 (1898), by Edmund Guilbert

Greenfield Hill

Celebration on Greenfield Hill (1876)

Ye church and parish of Greenfield; the story of an historic church in an historic town. 1725-1913 (1913), by George H. Merwin

Fairfield County

History of Fairfield county, Connecticut (1881), by D. Hamilton Hurd

Boyd’s Fairfield County directory (1883)

Leading business men of Fairfield county; and a historical review of the principal cities (1887)