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Fort Stamford Site
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
View from atop the earthworks
Fort Stamford Site is located in Connecticut
Fort Stamford Site
Fort Stamford Site is located in the United States
Fort Stamford Site
LocationWestover, Stamford, Connecticut
Coordinates41°5′6″N 73°34′42″W / 41.08500°N 73.57833°W / 41.08500; -73.57833
Area5 acres (2.0 ha)
Built1781
NRHP reference No.75001920[1]
Added to NRHPSeptember 10, 1975

The Fort Stamford Site, site of Fort Stamford, is a public park at 900 Westover Road in the Westover neighborhood of Stamford, Connecticut.[2][3] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.[1] It is the site of the archaeological remnants of a military earthworks erected during the American Revolutionary War.[4][5] With a clear view of the Mianus River and Long Island Sound, the fort was built as part of a ring of defenses to defend the New England Colonies from attacks by the British garrison in New York City.[6]

  1. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
  2. ^ State Commission on Culture & Tourism list
  3. ^ "City of Stamford Park List" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-07-20. Retrieved 2010-06-25.
  4. ^ Roberts, Robert B. (1988). Encyclopedia of Historic Forts: The Military, Pioneer, and Trading Posts of the United States. New York: Macmillan. pp. 123–124. ISBN 0-02-926880-X.
  5. ^ Fort Stamford at American Forts Network
  6. ^ "Fort Stamford haunted by history, and maybe ghosts". Stamford Advocate. October 30, 2014. Retrieved 5 March 2017.

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