Browse Items (36 total)

Postcard of Fairfield Beach Pavillion and arbor

Sunnie-Holme, 375 Old Post Road, was built in 1909 by Annie B. Jennings, a wealthy philanthropist who helped open the first high school in Fairfield. The mansion was the site of an expansive rose garden that Jennings opened up to the public in 1915.…

Trolley car No. 1479, constructed from wood by the Osgood Bradley Company and painted yellow.

Pictured here is motorman Patrick Collins standing with his trolley car on the Post Road at Miller Street. The Kilbourne-Sauer Co. building is visible…

Pictured here is one of Fairfield's trolleys running to the Stratfield neighborhood. The trolley has just crossed Jackman Avenue.

Overhead view of the replica of Whitehead's "No. 21" aircraft, created for a test run in 1986.  Gustave Whitehead, a German immigrant experimented with flight at the beginning of the 20th century. In 2013, the aviation "bible" Jane's All About…

One of Fairfield's trolley cars headed toward Norwalk. The No. 1941 car is pictured here at speed near the Pequot Monument in Southport.

Brill Manufacturing Company produced the car, which was colored yellow.

Meeker Merwin House

698 Merwins Lane

The Meeker Merwin house was built in 1780 by Meeker Merwin. Ownership of the house ended up with his son, Benjamin Merwin, who eventually passed it down to Morris Meeker Merwin. Morris served the town as a…

John Perry House

134 Center Street

The Perry house was built in 1882 for Judge John Hoyt Perry. Perry belonged to a prominent family in Southport, his father being a sea captain. The house gained an addition in 1905 and still stands today.

Damage caused to beachfront property on Fairfield Beach by the Hurricane of 1954.

Two women walk amidst the destruction inflicted upon Fairfield Beach by the 1954 hurricane.