Historical Markers in Fairfield County, Connecticut
19th & 20th Century Immigrants
248 Main Street
A Calf Pasture Primer
A Habitat Renewed
A Much-Loved Old Church and a Watering Trough for Horses
Abraham Lincolns Visit
Academy Hill Historic District
Andrew Roland House
Andrew Ward Memorial
Bailey Avenue: A Short-Cut to the Train Station
Bake Oven and Upper Level Structures
Ballard Park
Barlow Circle
Barton L. Weller
Battle of Ridgefield
Battle of Ridgefield Dead
Battle of the Rocks Monument
Battle of Westport Commemoration
Benedict Arnold's Betrayal and Lieutenant Joshua King
Bethel
Bethel Railway Station - 1912
Bethel Soldiers Memorial
Bethel World War I Monument
Birdseys Plain / Stepney Cemetery
Birdseys Plain Methodist Church
Birdseys Plain Stepney Baptist Church
Bissell's Destroyed by Two Conflagrations
Black Soldiers Memorial
Blacksmith Shop
Boothe Homestead
Boston & Maine ALCO 2-6-0 Mogul 1455
Branchville A Center of ItalianAmerican Life
Bridgeport
Bridgeport / Newtown Turnpike
Bridgeport Korean War Memorial
Bridgeport Soldiers and Sailors Memorial
Bridgeport Veterans Memorial
Bridgeport Vietnam War Memorial
Bridgeport World War II Memorial
Brookfield
Brookfield Veterans Monument
Bryant Electric Company World War I Monument
Bryant Electric Company World War II Monument
Burning of Norwalk
Burr Hawley & Burritt General Store
Burr Homestead
Byram Veterans Memorial
Camp Guardhouse
Captain Clapp Raymond
Captain David Judson House
Captain John Carpenter
Cemetery / Command Officers Quarters
Charles Burr Todd
Charles E. Rowell
Charles Edward Ives The Father of Modern Music
Christ Episcopal Church Cemetery Gate
Christopher Columbus
City of Bridgeport 150th Anniversary
City of Shelton Emergency Services Memorial
Clocktower Museum
Commodore Isaac Hull Bridge
Company Street (Fireback Row)
Compo Beach
Congressional Medal of Honor Recipients
Constitution Oak
Cos Cob
Country Lanes & City Streets
CV Flatcar
Cyrenius H. Booth Library
Danbury
Danbury 9-11 Memorial
Danbury Area Korean War Memorial
Danbury Area Vietnam War Memorial
Danbury City Hall Wall
Danbury Disasters
Danbury During the Revolutionary War
Danbury Fair Days
Danbury Firsts
Danbury Veterans Monument
Danbury Women of Note
Danbury World War II Memorial
Danbury Yard Turntable
Danbury The Hat City
Darien
Darien Civil War and World War I Memorial
Darien Combat Wounded Veterans Monument
Darien Korean War and Vietnam War Memorial
Darien World War II Memorial
David Ogden House
David Wooster Monument
Disbrow Tavern
Diversity in Danbury
Dr. Hosea Hurlburt House
Early Arrivals
Easton
Easton Remembers
Easton World War II & Korean War Monument
Edward A. Connell Heritage Park
Elmwood Park
Ensign James Benedict House
Fairfield
Fairfield Boulder
Fairfield Honor Roll
Fairfield Revolutionary War Memorial
Fairfield Sons Memorial
Fairfield Vietnam War Memorial
Farming & Agriculture
First Church of Christ Congregational
First Congregational Church
First Engagement
First Settlement 1710
Fitchs Point
Flax Hill Monument
Fort Hill
Fort Stamford
Founders and Proprietors Monument
Freedom Shrine
Freedom Tree
Gen. David Wooster
George C. Spader
George Hull Home Lot
George Washington Paused Here
Godillot Carriage House
Greens Farms Meeting House
Greenwich Ninth District Veterans Memorial
Greenwich Veterans Monument
Greenwich World War I Memorial
Guard House
Harvesting from the Sea
Higher Education
Hillside Cemetery World War Memorial
Historic Site
Home of William Samuel Johnson
Honor Roll Weston, Connecticut
Huntington World War II Memorial
In Commemoration
In Memory of All Bethel Veterans
In Memory of Lt. Rodney L. Stokes and Sgt. Julius G. Skyberg
Industrial Strength Danbury
Inventions & Innovations
Isaac Tucker House
Israel Putnam
James Henry ORourke
Jesup Green
Jesup-Godillot House
John J. Sullivan
John Read, Gentleman
John W. Leahy
Jonathan Sturges Cottage
Jonathan Trumbull
Joseph Edward Turner, M.D.
Keeler Tavern
Keeler Tavern and the Big Shop
Kenosia & Candlewood
Lake McDougall
Lewis Howard Latimer
Liberty Tree Memorial
Liberty Tree Memorial
Lifeguarding History
Long Hill World War I Memorial
LAmbiance Plaza Workers Memorial
Main Street in the Late 1800s
Major Samuel Comstock
Marian Anderson
Meeker's Hardware
Memorial Monument
Men of Greenfield Hill
Merritt Parkway Toll Booth Plaza
Michael F. Lione Memorial Park
Mill Pond History
Minuteman
Monroe
Monroe Korean War Memorial
Monroe Veterans Memorial
Monroe World War I Memorial
Monroe World War I Memorial
Monroe World War II Memorial
Monument to Soldiers in Unknown Graves
Monumental Moments
Moorlands
More of the Great Fire
Museum
Nash House
Nathan Bulkley House
New Canaan
New Fairfield
New Fairfield Fire Department Memorial
New Fairfield Veterans Memorial
Newtown
Newtown Meeting House
Newtown Veterans Memorial
Nichols, Conn. World War Veterans Memorial
Norfield Grange World War II Memorial
Norwalk
Norwalk Founded
Norwalk World War I Memorial
NYC Crane, GCT-1
Officers Quarters
Officers Quarters / Magazine
Old City Center Square
Old Congregational Burying Ground
Old Danbury Station
Old Greenwich
Old Greenwich Yacht Club
Old Hundred
Oldest Cemetery 1684
Original Bell of Stepney Baptist Church
Oscar E. Peck
Out of the Ashes
Parish of St. Pauls
Pequot Swamp Fountain
Perry Memorial Arch
PFC John K. Goett
Philips Cave
Phineas Taylor (P.T.) Barnum
Pinney Corners
Place Where Wooster Fell
Planted in Memory of Theodore Roosevelt
Plumtrees Honor Roll
Plumtrees School
Pro Patria
Putnam Cottage
Putnam Memorial State Park
Putnam's Escape
Quarries, Abrasives and the "Fresh Air" Kids
Radio Station 1BCG
Raynal C. Bolling
Redding
Redding Citizens
Rev. John Beach, A.M.
Rev. Thomas Hawley House
Reverend John Jones Memorial
Ridgebury Congregational Church
Ridgebury George Washington Slept Here
Ridgefield
Ridgefield Veterans Memorial
Ridgefield Veterans Monument
Ridgefield, Connecticut
Ridgefield, Connecticut
Ridgefield's Colonial Plans
Rings End Landing
Roberto Clemente
Rochambeau
Roger Ludlow
Roger Ludlow
Rowayton Veterans Memorial
Salute to Women Veterans Day 1999
Savings Bank of Danbury at Bankers Row
Schools and Education
Second Oldest Cemetery in Greenwich
Settlers Rock
Settlers Rock
Shelton
Shelton Locks
Shelton Veterans Monument
Shelton World War I Monument
Shelton World War II Memorial
Sherman
Sherman Veterans Memorial
Sherman World War I Memorial
Site of Old Tavern of Greenfield
Site of Trinity Church
Site of "Verna"
Smith Tavern A Colonial Meeting Place
Soldiers and Sailors Memorial
Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument
Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument
Sound Beach Railroad Station
Southport Wharves
Spring Grove Cemetery Veterans Memorial
St. John's Episcopal Church
St. Mary Church and Rectory
St. Pauls Church
St. Pauls Historic Graveyard
Stamford Iraq War Memorial
Stamford Old Town Hall
Stamford Veterans Memorial
Stamford Veterans Monument
Stamford World War I Memorial
State Police and the Benjamin Franklin School
Stepney Fire House #1
Stepney Schoolhouse
Stratford American Revolutionary War Memorial
Stratford Civil War Memorial
Stratford Disabled American Veterans Memorial
Stratford Korean War Memorial
Stratford Point Lighthouse
Stratford Veterans Memorial
Stratford Veterans Monument
Stratford Vietnam Memorial
Stratford World War I Memorial
Stratford World War I Monument
Stratford World War II Memorial
Sybil Ludington
Tashua Hills
Taylor Farm Park
Technocratic Cathedral
The Battle of Ridgefield
The Battle of Ridgefield, April 27, 1777
The Birds
The British Invasion
The Circus Comes to Town
The Confederate Bell
The Cos Cob Art Colony
The Danbury Court House
The Danbury Fire Department
The Danbury Public Library
The Danbury Raid
The Elms Inn and Stebbins Homestead
The First Society of Ridgefield
The Gilbert House
The Great Fire of 1895
The Hill Academy
The Livery Stable and the First Catholic Church
The Lounsbury House
The Marvin Property
The Merritt Parkway
The News Around Town
The Old Burying Ground at Byram Shore Road
The Original Episcopal Church
The Post Road Bridge
The Ridgefield Train Station
The Rochambeau Route 1781 82
The Seal of the City
The Settlement of Stamford in 1641
The Settling of Danbury
The Sporting Life
The Spotting Tower and Railroad Warehousing
The Stamford Lincoln
The Town Common and Hauley House
The Trumbull Library
The Village Center in the Early 1900s
The Village in the 1900s
Thomas Sherwood Memorial
Titicus: An Industrial Center
To Honor the Men and Women of the City of Shelton
To Our Brothers
Tom Thumb
Town of Redding World War I Memorial
Trains, Trolleys & Transportation
Trumbull
Trumbull Veterans Memorial
Trumbull Vietnam Veterans Memorial Park
Trumbull Volunteer Fire Company #1
Trumbull World War I Memorial
U.S.S. Maine Memorial
Unknown Heroes
Up This Road
VFW Post 9460 Memorial
Visitor Center (1893 Pavilion)
Washington Rochambeau Revolutionary Route
Washington Rochambeau Revolutionary Route
Washington-Rochambeau Revolutionary Route
Weir Farm National Historic Site
Weston
Weston Vietnam War & Persian Gulf War Monument
Westport Korean War Monument
Westport Vietnam War Monument
Westport World War I Monument
Westport World War II Honor Roll
Westport World War II Memorial
Wheeler House
Wilton
Wilton Roll of Honor
Wilton Semaphore
Wilton Veterans Memorial
Winter Quarters of Putnams Division
Wooster Square
Ye Burying Yard
Ye Olde Kings Highway
"Macs Harbor"
"Yogi"
Putnams Escape from Horseneck
About Fairfield County
Fairfield County Timeline
Fairfield County, located in the southwestern corner of Connecticut, has a rich history that spans thousands of years. The region was originally inhabited by the indigenous Paugussett tribe, who lived off the land and engaged in trade with neighboring tribes. European settlers first arrived in the late 1630s, when men from Hartford purchased land from the Paugussett people, establishing the town of Stratford.
In the 18th century, Fairfield County played a significant role in the American Revolutionary War. The region saw several important battles, including the famous Battle of Ridgefield, where American forces fought against British troops. Fairfield County also served as a strategic location for supplying and supporting the Continental Army, as it provided access to both Long Island Sound and the Hudson River.
During the 19th and early 20th centuries, Fairfield County experienced rapid industrialization and urbanization. Towns like Norwalk and Bridgeport became major manufacturing centers, producing goods such as textiles, machinery, and firearms. The growth of these industries brought an influx of immigrants to the area, particularly from Ireland and Italy, who played a vital role in its economic development.
Today, Fairfield County is known for its affluent communities, thriving business sectors, and cultural attractions. The county is home to renowned educational institutions, including Yale University in New Haven, and a variety of museums, theaters, and art galleries. With its picturesque coastline, charming towns, and proximity to New York City, Fairfield County continues to attract residents and visitors alike, preserving its rich history while embracing the opportunities of the present.
In the 18th century, Fairfield County played a significant role in the American Revolutionary War. The region saw several important battles, including the famous Battle of Ridgefield, where American forces fought against British troops. Fairfield County also served as a strategic location for supplying and supporting the Continental Army, as it provided access to both Long Island Sound and the Hudson River.
During the 19th and early 20th centuries, Fairfield County experienced rapid industrialization and urbanization. Towns like Norwalk and Bridgeport became major manufacturing centers, producing goods such as textiles, machinery, and firearms. The growth of these industries brought an influx of immigrants to the area, particularly from Ireland and Italy, who played a vital role in its economic development.
Today, Fairfield County is known for its affluent communities, thriving business sectors, and cultural attractions. The county is home to renowned educational institutions, including Yale University in New Haven, and a variety of museums, theaters, and art galleries. With its picturesque coastline, charming towns, and proximity to New York City, Fairfield County continues to attract residents and visitors alike, preserving its rich history while embracing the opportunities of the present.
Fairfield County Timeline
This timeline provides a condensed summary of the historical journey of Fairfield County, Connecticut.
- 1639 - Fairfield County is settled by English colonists from the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
- 1660 - The town of Fairfield is officially incorporated.
- 1665 - The town of Norwalk is settled and officially incorporated.
- 1685 - The town of Stamford is settled and officially incorporated.
- 1724 - The town of Danbury is settled and officially incorporated.
- 1739 - The dividing line between Fairfield County and New Haven County is established.
- 1784 - The town of Ridgefield is settled and officially incorporated.
- 1851 - The town of Bridgeport is settled and officially incorporated.
- 1871 - The town of Greenwich is settled and officially incorporated.
- 1974 - The town of Newtown is settled and officially incorporated.
- 2000 - Fairfield County becomes the most populous county in Connecticut.