Historical Society of Easton Connecticut

Prior to the Town of Fairfield’s purchase of approximately 52,000 acres of land from Native Americans during the 1660’s, the land that now comprises Easton

When some of my childhood friends return to Easton for a visit, most are both pleased and amazed at how little their hometown has changed

  Like most people, I find oral histories fascinating. What better way to learn about the past than getting it from a first-hand source? Someone

When you picture in your mind the quintessential New England town there’s likely a town green, with some sort of memorial to the local warriors

It would seem that every small town in New England still maintains at least one of their original iconic one-room schoolhouses as a testimony to

  It’s difficult to imagine living in the modern world without the protective service that towns routinely provide for fire, but it wasn’t that long