Nichols Farms Historic District | |
 Clark's Map of Nichol's Farms in 1867 | |
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| Location | Center Rd., 1681--1944 Huntington Turnpike, 5--34 Priscilla Pl., and 30--172 Shelton Rd., Trumbull, Connecticut |
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| Coordinates | 41°14′33″N 73°9′53″W / 41.24250°N 73.16472°W |
| Area | 104 acres (42 ha) |
| Architectural style | Early Colonial, Georgian, Federal, Greek Revival, Victorian |
| NRHP reference No. | 87001392[1] |
| Added to NRHP | August 20, 1987 |
Nichols Farms is a historic area within the town of Trumbull, Connecticut. The Nichols Farms Historic District, which encompasses part of the area, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Originally home to the Paugusset people, the Nichols area was colonized by the English during the Great Migration of the 1630s as a part of the coastal settlement of Stratford. The first English settlements followed soon after settlement of the mother-town in 1639.[2]
The area was governed by Stratford for eighty six years before a separate village was organized in 1725.[3] Hence, all of Nichols Farms early public records are intermingled with and identified as Stratford records.
The early English settlers named Nichols after the family who maintained a large farm in its center. It was first organized as the village of Unity in 1725. The village of Unity (later called North Stratford) continued for seventy-two years before the privileges of a town were granted in 1797.
- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
- ^ [1]History of Fairfield County, Connecticut with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of Its Prominent Men and Pioneers, Hurd, D. Hamilton, J.W. Lewis & Company, Philadelphia, PA, 1881, page 771
- ^ The Public Records of the Colony of Connecticut volume 6 page 568