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Fairfield Motor Inn

417 Post Road

The front entrance of the Fairfield Motor Inn, circa 1977.

Fairfield Optical

2449 Black Rock Turnpike

Pictured here is Fairfield Optical's owner, Chris Cannella, in his store. The store had recently celebrated its grand opening.

Gustave Whitehead and daughter Rose, sitting with group beside Whitehead's "No. 21" aircraft. Photo taken by Stanley Yale Beach in the spring of 1901, at a clearing bounded by Cherry Street, Bostwick Avenue and Pine Streets,in the West End of…

Gustave Whitehead, sitting with the checkered shawl, and Arthur Watson, sitting in his car (the other man sitting was Watson's chauffeur). The caption written on the back was "This car did its share of towing Whitehead planes for take-off." The…

Gustave Whitehead, a German immigrant experimented with flight at the beginning of the 20th century. In 2013, the aviation "bible" Jane's All About Aircraft concluded from a study of the evidence (long debated) that Whitehead made powered flights two…

Fairfield residents work together to remove a tree knocked over onto a house by the 1938 hurricane.

Fairfield residents survey a home on Fairfield Beach which was torn apart by the destructive force of the infamous 1938 storm.

Tree damage and debris around the Fairfield Trust Company building following the passage of the 1938 hurricane.

The large-scale flooding caused by the hurricane of 1938 left Reef Road entirely below water.

A view of the floodwater on Quincy Street in the wake of the 1953 hurricane.