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  History of Stratford, Connecticut, USA

Journey back in time to Stratford, Connecticut, USA

Visit Stratford, Connecticut, USA. Discover its history. Learn about the people who lived there through stories, old newspaper articles, pictures, postcards and genealogy.

     

• 1639 - Stratford founded
  
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• 1682 - June 20 - A major tornado ripped through southwestern Connecticut, passing through Stratford, Milford, and New Haven, and then into Long Island Sound.
  
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  June 20, 1682
  
  
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  Gen'l Joseph Walker House, built 1740
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  Congregational Church, Stratford, Conn.
  Erected 1784. Taken down 1859.
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• 1819 - Stratford
  Stratford, a pleasant and flourishing post township, is situated on the west side of the Ousatonick river, about 3 miles from its mouth, and 13 from...Read MORE...
  
  
  
• 1854 - Stratford
  Stratford, a post-township of Fairfield co., Connecticut, at the mouth of Housntonic river, about 15 miles S. W. from New Haven. Population, 2040.
  A New and Complete Gazetteer of the United States: Giving a Full and Comprehensive Review of the Present Condition, Industry, and Resources of the American Confederacy ... Thomas Baldwin (of Philadelphia.) Joseph Thomas January 1, 1854 Philadelphia : Lippincott, Grambo & Company 1854.
  
  
•  1871 - Lucky Find
  The recent purchasers of an old mansion in Stratford, Conn., while engaged in tearing down the stone chimney, came across a large earthen pot of...Read MORE...
  
  
  
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  Scenes in Bridgeport, Stratford and Milford.
  Picturesque America... Oliver Bell Bunce, William Cullen Bryant
  New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1872-1874.
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•  1888 - Train Accident
  BRIDGEPORT, Conn., Jan. 18. - The Washington express, going east, at 2 o'clock this morning, met with an accident while passing through West...Read MORE...
  
  
  
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  Stratford Library, Stratford, Conn.
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  Blacksmith, 1905
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• 1906
  Stratford, a post-village in Stratford township (town), Fairfield co., Conn., on the W. bank of the Housatonic River, about 2 miles from its mouth,...Read MORE...
  
  
  
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  Housatonic Ave., 1907
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  Main St, 1907
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  Home in Stratford, Conn., 1909
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  Stratford Point Light House, 1910
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  Methodist Episcopal Church, Stratford, Conn.
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  Center Beach, Short Beach, Conn.
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  Main Street, 1920s
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  Elm Street
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  Main Street, Stratford, Conn.
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  Weatogue Country Club
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  Far Mill Falls
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  High School
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  Main St, 1950s
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• 1955 - Theater opened
  Shakespeare Memorial Theater opened at Stratford.
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•  1956 - Driver Injured In 4-Car Crash
  Milford Man Seems Unhurt, Later Hospitalized in ‘Critical’ Condition
  A Milford man who walked away from a four-car crash in Stratford yesterday...Read MORE...