Guilford
Guilford is best known in Connecticut for its historic town green, the broad civic space at the centre of a community founded by English settlers in 1639. The Green is lined with churches and early houses, while the Henry Whitfield House, built in 1639, is a National Historic Landmark and among the oldest surviving stone houses in New England. Guilford extends from this colonial core south to the shore of Long Island Sound, where salt marshes and small coves give the coast a sheltered character. Inland, Interstate 95 crosses a largely wooded section of town, linking Guilford with New Haven and other communities along the Connecticut shoreline. The concentration of 17th- and 18th-century buildings around the Green gives the town a tangible record of its early settlement.
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Guilford straddles the northern shore of Long Island Sound in southern Connecticut, a position that has shaped it as a coastal New England town while keeping it connected to the inland corridor between New Haven and the Connecticut River. Its broad town green anchors a centre of colonial-era houses, shops and civic buildings. The Henry Whitfield House, built in 1639 for Guilford’s first minister, is widely recognised as New England’s oldest surviving stone house and preserves the town’s earliest English-settlement story. Shoreline neighbourhoods and local harbours provide a maritime counterpoint to the historic centre. Continue with other webcams from the Connecticut shoreline to see how this part of Long Island Sound connects regionally.
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