Ernest Hillman Jr. Nature Preserve

Ernest Hillman Jr. Nature Preserve is a nature reserve in Town of Fairfield, Greater Bridgeport Planning Region, Connecticut. Ernest Hillman Jr. Nature Preserve is situated nearby to the hamlet Murray, as well as near Greenfield Hill.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Connecticut Audubon Society Center at Fairfield and Greenfield Hill Historic District.

Connecticut Audubon Society Center at Fairfield

Nature reserve

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The Connecticut Audubon Society Center at Fairfield is a nature center and wildlife sanctuary in the Greenfield Hill area of Fairfield, Connecticut. Constructed in 1971, the center features classrooms for environmental education programs, live animals on display, natural history exhibits, a nature library, a solar greenhouse and a gift shop.

Greenfield Hill Historic District

Park

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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.

Black Rock Congregational Church

Church

Photo: BRCC, Public domain.

Black Rock Church is a non-denominational church located in Fairfield, Connecticut. The church was established in 1849 in the Black Rock section of Bridgeport, Connecticut, and moved to its current site in 1968.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Fairfield and Black Rock.

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.

Black Rock

Photo: Markvs88, Public domain.

Black Rock is a neighborhood in the southwestern section of the city of Bridgeport, Connecticut. It borders Fairfield and the Ash Creek tidal estuary on the west, the West Side/West End of Bridgeport on the north and east, and Black Rock Harbor and Long Island Sound on the south.

Aspetuck

Hamlet

Photo: Swroche, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Aspetuck is a village on the Aspetuck River, in Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States. It is mostly situated in the town of Easton but extending also into Weston.

Ernest Hillman Jr. Nature Preserve

Type: Nature reserve
Category: recreation area
Location: Town of Fairfield, Greater Bridgeport Planning Region, Connecticut, New England, United States, North America
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Latitude

41.1917° or 41° 11′ 30″ north

Longitude

-73.2883° or 73° 17′ 18″ west

Operator

Aspetuck Land Trust

Open location code

87H85PR6+MM

OpenStreetMap ID

way 1442940478

OpenStreetMap feature

leisure=nature_reserve

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Localities in the Area

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