Stamford

Fairfield County · dedicated 1973 · location approximate

STAMFORD Purchased from Ponus, sagamore (chief) of Toquams, and Wascussue, sagamore of Shippan, July 1, 1640 by Nathaniel Turner, agent of New Haven Colony. In May 1641, town was settled by a company of twenty-eight families from Wethersfield under leadership of the Reverend Richard Denton. First called Rippowam, was renamed Stamford in 1642 from Stamford in Lincolnshire, England, included all of Pound Ridge, New York, part of New Canaan, and all of present Darien. Stamford men participated in the American Revolution, and Fort Stamford, now a city park, was erected in 1781 to defend the area. Stamford was primarily agricultural until arrival of the railroad in 1848.

Text transcribed from the cast town markers erected under Connecticut's town historical marker program in the 1970s and early 1980s. Presented as a historical record.

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