News Details (Posted: February 13, 2008):

The History of Easton

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Easton was first settled in 1757 by men from Fairfield. In 1762 a congregation called the North Fairfield Society was established, and it gradually evolved into Easton. In 1787 Weston, then including lands now defined as Easton, was incorporated from Fairfield. The area was slow to develop because of the rough hills along the Aspetuck River, and so it was not until 1845 that Easton was incorporated from Weston. Today, while close to the New York metropolitan area, Easton remains a quiet and even rural residential town. Half of the town's property is owned by the Aquarion Water Company of Connecticut, the major supplier of water in the area.

On June 1, 1968, the deaf and blind activist Helen Keller died at the age of 87 in her Easton, Connecticut home, where she chose to spend her final days. Her house is still intact today and has been owned by several families since her death.


Aspetuck Historic District — Roughly, Redding Rd. from jct. with Old Redding Rd. to Wells Hill Rd. and Old Redding Rd. N past Aspetuck R. (added September 23, 1991)

Bradley-Hubbell House — 535 Black Rock Turnpike (added May 18, 2003) was built in 1816 for Aljah and Elizabeth Bradley. Two occupants have left memoirs. The first was John Dimon Bradley, son of Aljah and Elizabeth, who described life on what was mainly a subsistence farm in the Nineteenth century. In 1912, Bradley descendants sold the property to the Bridgeport Hydraulic Company, which flooded much of the farmland for a reservoir and leased the house to Franklin Hubbell (d. 1996), one of its employees. His daughter, Patricia, wrote about her life while she lived in the house between about 1932 and 1954. The house is a Colonial with a traditional center-chimney plan. The house has a few Federal-style ornaments, including oval windows in the gables, a parlor mantel, and rope molding on the stairs.

Ida Tarbell House — 320 Valley Rd. (added May 19, 1993)

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