page_title: Stratford, Connecticut
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Stratford, Connecticut / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Postcard: Stratford Library, Stratford, Connecticut, postmarked 1909
context_page_description: Stratford is a town in Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States. It is situated on Long Island Sound along Connecticut's "Gold Coast" at the mouth of the Housatonic River. Stratford is in the Bridgeport–Stamford–Norwalk Metropolitan Statistical Area. It was founded by Puritans in 1639.
  The population was 51,384 as of the 2010 census. It is bordered on the west by Bridgeport, to the north by Trumbull and Shelton, and on the east by Milford. Stratford has a historical legacy in aviation, the military, and theater.
caption: Stratford Public Library, as seen in a 1909 postcard
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