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Near downtown
Hope Street
Newfield
North Stamford
Westover/Roxbury
Long Ridge
Unknown Location
Farmers

Photo Archivist's Selection of the Month: May 2009

Farms in Stamford

Newfield

Puritan Poultry Farm of D.A. da Lima

Puritan Poultry Farms

Puritan Poultry Farm, undated ad
undated

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Parris-Jessup Poultry Farm

Originally at Hope Street & Tom Road, later, about 1900 (?) at Oaklawn & Newfield. May also have been called "Oaklawn Farm."

Parris-Jessup Poultry Farm

Parris-Jessup Poultry Farm, 1907

Mortimer Hess, 1839 Newfield Ave. (map)

(deceased 1907) Photos are 20th century ones, the barn burnt down 1968.

Hess Property, Newfield Avenue
1950

Hess Property, Newfield Avenue

Hess Property, Newfield Avenue

Photos © Stamford Historical Society

Near downtown
Hope Street
Newfield
North Stamford
Westover/Roxbury
Long Ridge
Unknown Location
Farmers

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