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Westport is a town in Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States, along the Long Island Sound within Connecticut's Gold Coast. It is 48 miles (77 km) northeast of New York City. The town is part of the Western Connecticut Planning Region.
Westport is a town in South Western Connecticut, United States. According to the 2020 United States Census, 27,141 people lived there.
The integrity of the historic and natural environment of early twentieth century Westport fostered the emergence of what characterizes much of Westport’s architecture today. At the time, older houses were recognized as historic and were renovated into picturesque country estates.
The Fairfield County town of Westport is located in the southern part of the state on the Long Island Sound. The first white settlers to the area were farming families, who called the area Green’s Farm. In 1835 the town incorporated and the name changed to Westport.
The Bridge Street Historic District encompasses a largely residential stretch of Bridge Street (Connecticut Route 136) and adjacent Imperial Avenue in Westport, Connecticut.
The Town Seal depicts Westport as it existed in 1835 looking west over the State Street Bridge (currently known as the Ruth Steinkraus Cohen Memorial Bridge). It is taken from an illustration in John Warner Barber’s book, the Connecticut Historical Collections, published in 1836.
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