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The Town Hall with a temporary speakers' platform set up in Central Park, at the right. The Town Hall was decorated for the celebration in honor of the 250th founding of Stamford. This is the seventeenth in a series of Old-Time Stamford photographs…

Once known as The “Stage House” and famous as a stopping-off point for travelers from New York to New Haven and Boston, The Stamford House was located on the south side of Main Street and directly across the street from the Carlton House, its main…

In the picture L.R. Willie Hoyt and helper. Among the earliest ice dealers in Stamford was John B. Knapp who established the Crystal Lake Ice Company in 1885, south of the Post Road near the Greenwich line. Cut from artificial lakes, the ice was…

Painted picket fences, tree-guards, and stately home with spacious lawns around St. John's Park

This large, wooden arch was erected over Atlantic Street at the corner of Bank Street in 1892 when the Town of Stamford celebrated the 250th Anniversary of its founding. Three U.S. Navy ships were anchored in the harbor for the occasion and a mammoth…

Two weeks of intermittent rainfall was climaxed by a heavy downpour on Tuesday, July 30, 1889 which choked up sewer inlets and flooded many sections of the town. The Mill River rose to within ten inches of the plank bridge on Broad Street.

The gift of $43,000 by John Clason in 189, subsequent donations of other Stamford Citizens and a State grant of $25,000 in 1895 provided the sum of $100,000 to establish the Stamford Hospital. The first Hospital opened May 1896 on East Main Street…