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The Zachariah Curtiss Houses are located at 2950 Nichols Avenue on the ''Farm Highway'' or Route 108 on the south side of ''Mischa Hill'', and are among the oldest houses in the village of Nichols in Trumbull, Connecticut in New England. They are both Colonial American wooden post-and-beam timber frame farm houses. The older and smaller house of the two was built by Zachariah I around 1686 and the second house was built by his son Zachariah II around 1721 in the Georgian architectural style.〔Geoffrey Rossano PhD, Historic and Architectural Resource Survey of Trumbull, Connecticut, produced for the Connecticut Historical Commission, Hartford, CT, 2002〕〔Heather Jones and Bruce Harvey, Historic and Architectural Survey of the Town of Trumbull, Fairfield County, Connecticut, Produced for the Connecticut Commission on Culture and Tourism, Hartford, CT, 2010〕 The houses were built on separate sides of the ''Farm highway''. The smaller house was moved alongside and attached to the larger house as an ell around 1800. As the population of the village increased, the traffic, which traveled directly through the Curtiss farm, increased as well and the house was moved to improve safety and privacy. Building dwellings or farm buildings on opposite sides of the highway, or within the grassy median between the travel lanes, was very common in Stratford. The houses also have the distinction of being located in four different townships in their history, but have never been moved more than 50 feet; Stratford (1686–1725), Unity (1725–1744), North Stratford (1744–1797) and Trumbull (1797-present). And, they have been owned by only three families surnames in their history; Curtiss, Cooper and the present owner. ==Zachariah Curtiss== Zachariah Curtiss, the son of William, was born in Stratford on November 14, 1659.〔Stratford Land Records Vol. 1, page 27〕 Zachariah received division land as a part of the ''three mile or wood's division'' on November 17, 1693, that was described as lying ''in ye woods as you go to Captain's Farm''.〔Stratford Land Records Vol. 2, page 315〕 ==Farm Highway== On December 7 1696 the ''Farm Highway'', present-day Nichols Avenue Connecticut Route 108, was laid out by the Stratford selectmen to the south side of ''Mischa Hill''.〔Orcutt, Vol. 2 p. 1049〕 The highway was 12 rods wide, or 198 feet, where Broadbridge Brook runs off the south side of Mischa Hill, at Zachariah Curtiss, his land, and at ''Captain's Farm''. Broadbridge Brook runs off Mischa Hill west of the present-day intersection of Route 108 and the Merritt Parkway and flows southwesterly to Broadbridge Avenue in Stratford. The Captain the town recorder was referring to may have been Captain William Curtiss who was Captain of the first Train Band and owned a farm at ''Turkey Hill'' at this time. This hill was located two miles from the meeting house along the ''Farm Highway'' on the way north to ''Mischa Hill''. The hill was also commonly called ''Second Hill'', ''Good Hill'' and ''Grassy Hill''.〔 Genealogy of the Bostwick family in America: The descendants of Arthur Bostwick of Stratford, CT, p. 56, Bryan Printing Co., 1901〕 The Captain could have also been Joseph, Joseph Jr. or John Hawley who owned the farm, called Ephraim Hawley House, which bordered Zachariah Curtiss to the south. John Hawley was Captain of the ''Second'' or ''North Train Band'' and was Justice of the Peace for Fairfield County. In October 1725, when the Assembly of the Connecticut Colony approved the Parish of Unity, they referred to the Farm Highway as ''Nickol's Farm's Road''.〔(Colonial Connecticut Records 1636–1776, Vol. 6 p. 568 )〕 The Nichols Avenue portion of Route 108 in Trumbull is considered to be the third-oldest documented highway in Connecticut after the Mohegan Road, Connecticut Route 32 in Norwich (1670) and the King's Highway, or Boston Post Road Route 1 (1673).〔(Kurumi Connecticut Roads retrieved on 2008-04-11 )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Zachariah Curtiss House」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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