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Trumbull Center is a section or neighborhood of the town of Trumbull in Fairfield County, Connecticut in New England. It is considered the center of the town, and was the seat of town government from 1883 through 1957.
Trumbull Shopping Park was renamed Westfield Shoppingtown Trumbull in 1998. [6] The mall was renamed Westfield Trumbull with the company-wide discontinuation of the "Westfield Shoppingtown" naming convention in May 2005, citing that "the name served its purpose" and that "Shoppingtown is part of [their] heritage, but Westfield is the brand."
The Trumbull Historical Society, founded in 1964, maintains a museum of Trumbull's past at 1856 Huntington Turnpike on the site of Abraham Nichols farm. [48] The Trumbull Nature & Arts Center is located at 7115 Main Street and coordinate trips for fishing, butterfly searches, gardening, outdoor photography and other nature related activities.
Daniels Farm is a census-designated place (CDP) in the town of Trumbull, Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States.It is in the northeastern part of Trumbull and is bordered to the northeast by the city of Shelton.
Trumbull was originally settled as a part of Cupheag, the Pequannock word for "harbor", a coastal settlement established in 1639 by Puritan leader Reverend Adam Blakeman (pronounced Blackman), William Beardsley and either 16 families—according to legend—or approximately 35 families—suggested by later research—who had recently arrived in Connecticut from England seeking religious freedom.
The Old Mine Park Archaeological Site is a historic site in the Long Hill section of Trumbull, Connecticut, United States. It was mined from 1828 to 1920 and during 1942-1946, and has been incorporated in a municipal park. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.
In April 1662, Lt. Joseph Judson, Joseph Hawley, and John Minor secured the last written deed of transfer from the Paugussett Indian Nation for the entire western part of Trumbull, referred to simply as the "Long Hill purchase" lying west of land already purchased. [5] Land on Long Hill was granted to individuals shortly after 1662.
The Town of Trumbull purchased it from the church in 1974. This tract was then known as the Woods Estate and is now the home of the Trumbull Historical Society. [ 12 ] Recent research has determined that Nichols holdings totaled around 285 acres (1.15 km 2 ) of land, of which 55 acres (0.22 km 2 ) remains as open space today.