Bronson Windmill
The Bronson Windmill is an historic windmill at 3015 Bronson Road in Fairfield, Connecticut. Built in 1893-94, it is the only surviving windmill in the town, out a number that once dotted the landscape.Photo: Jack Boucher, Public domain.
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Greenfield Hill Historic District and Fairfield University.
Greenfield Hill Historic District
Park
The Greenfield Hill Historic District encompasses the historic village area of the village of Greenfield Hill in northern Fairfield, Connecticut. The area was important from the mid-18th to 19th centuries as an intellectual center in the town, driven in part by Timothy Dwight, the Greenfield Hill Church minister and later president of Yale College.
Fairfield University
University
Photo: Stagophile, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Fairfield University is a private Catholic university in Fairfield, Connecticut, United States. It was founded by the Jesuits in 1942. In the fall of 2024, the university had about 5,400 full-time undergraduate students and 1,500 graduate students, including full-time and part-time students. Fairfield University is situated 2 miles southeast of Bronson Windmill.
Oaklawn Cemetery
Cemetery
Photo: LM2000, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Oak Lawn Cemetery is a cemetery in Fairfield, Connecticut. Oaklawn Cemetery is situated 1 mile southeast of Bronson Windmill.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Greenfield Hill and Southport.
Greenfield Hill
Hamlet
Greenfield Hill is an affluent historic neighborhood in Fairfield, Connecticut, United States, roughly bounded by Easton to the north, southern Burr Street/northern Black Rock Turnpike to the east, and Southport and Westport to the south and west respectively.
Southport
Village
Photo: RGloucester, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Southport is a census-designated place in the town of Fairfield, Connecticut, United States. It is located along Long Island Sound between Mill River and Sasco Brook, where it borders Westport. Southport is situated 2½ miles south of Bronson Windmill.
Fairfield
Photo: KLOTZ, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Fairfield is a town in Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States. It borders the city of Bridgeport and towns of Trumbull, Easton, Weston, and Westport along the Gold Coast of Connecticut.
Bronson Windmill
- Type: Windmill
- Description: windmill in Connecticut, United States of America
- Categories: historic site and industry
- Location: Town of Fairfield, Greater Bridgeport Planning Region, Connecticut, New England, United States, North America
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Latitude
41.17272° or 41° 10′ 22″ northLongitude
-73.2917° or 73° 17′ 30″ westOpen location code
87H85PF5+38OpenStreetMap ID
node 4768952415OpenStreetMap feature
historic=yesOpenStreetMap feature
man_made=windmillWikidata ID
Q4974059
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