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Shows Meeker’s onion docks and warehouses in Southport harbor. Boats are docked in the foreground and figures are talking on dock.

Warehouses dominated the Southport shoreline in the 1800s, when Fairfield farmers shipped onions and other goods to…

Oliver Perry House

750 Harbor Road

The Perry house was built around 1843 by Oliver Perry. Perry was a member of the Connecticut General Assembly in 1847-1849, 1853, 1857, 1860, and 1864. He was the Connecticut Secretary of State in 1854 and…

Panoramic view of Southport harbor from Sturges house, Harbor Road, with ship in foreground.

Ice blocks were floated to this icehouse, and loaded onto a conveyor which moved them into storage. The ice was insulated with sawdust to help it last until it was needed for household iceboxes. The Bulkley family operated the Sasaco Lake Ice…

From 1909 to 1912, Casper Schick operated a cafe on the first floor of the later Jr. Pequot Yacht Club building. The building was erected in 1889 by Simon Banks. The people in the picture have been identified as follows -- from left to right:…

187 Westway Road, Historic house in Southport

The Reverend Charles G. Adams was rector of Trinity Church, Southport, from 1879 to 1890 (he was initially named to this position temporarily but was so popular that he was convinced to take a permanent position.). He lived in the "Old Rectory" a…

Southport railroad station postcard

Jelliff Corporation

354 Pequot Avenue

A manufacturing plant of the Jelliff Corporation located in Southport. The facility produced wire and mesh. The Jelliff Corporation itself grew out of the small grocery store established by Charles O.…

Damtoft Pharmacy

Southport

An exterior view of the pharmacy of Knud. J. Damtoft, a local pharmacist in Southport before the turn of the twentieth century. Damtoft moved to New York at some point in 1895.