About Guilford, Connecticut

Guilford is a town of 22,073 people in New Haven County, on Long Island Sound. Before the English came, the Quinnipiac village of Menunkatuck stood here. In 1639 the Reverend Henry Whitfield brought a company of 24 Puritan families ashore at New Haven, and they chose land near Menunkatuck, almost 13 miles away. They had signed the Plantation Covenant at sea, and that September Shaumpishuh, the woman sachem of Menunkatuck, granted them their land.

The settlement kept the Quinnipiac name until 1643, when it became Guilford and joined the New Haven Colony. The new name most likely came from Guildford in England, home to some of the settlers. The first planters were nearly all farmers, and a history of 1818 says not one was a merchant and the town had trouble getting even a blacksmith to stay. In 1664 the New Haven Colony, Guilford included, joined Connecticut Colony.

  • The stone house of 1639Work on a stone house for Henry Whitfield began in September 1639, and Menunkatuck people helped haul the stone to the site on hand barrows. Its walls rose nearly two feet thick, and it served as home, church, meeting hall and fort. In 1837 John Warner Barber wrote that the town's first wedding was held inside, with pork and pease for supper. In 1899 the house opened as the first Connecticut state museum.
  • Whaleboats to Sag HarborIn 1776 Samuel Brown's sloop Polly made five trips to Long Island, carrying people, household goods and livestock back to safety in Guilford. The next year, in 1777, Return Meigs set out from Sachem's Head with 170 men in whaleboats, raided the British at Sag Harbor and came home with 90 prisoners without losing a single man.
  • Granite from Leete's IslandA quarry opened in 1837 at the sawpits, on land that had been Henry Whitfield's farm, and its stone went into New York City's Leake and Watts Orphan Asylum. John Beattie arrived at Leete's Island in 1870 and opened larger quarries, and by 1892 he employed anywhere between 125 and 600 men. Stone cut in Guilford was used in the Brooklyn Bridge, the Statue of Liberty, New York's Third Avenue Bridge and a new railroad terminal in Boston.
  • A tavern that never openedMedad Stone built his tavern in 1803 where the Boston Post Road was supposed to be rerouted. The road stayed where it was, so he never welcomed a single guest. The Davis family then farmed the land around the house for nearly 200 years and gave it to the Guilford Keeping Society in 2001. The Medad Stone Tavern joined the National Register in 2009.
  • The Acadian HouseJoseph Clay built this house on Union Street about 1670, and it is one of the oldest surviving houses in Connecticut. It takes its name from an Acadian family from Grand Pre that made it their home after the British forced them out of Nova Scotia in 1755.

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Names on the Guilford map

Every name below is printed on this map. Look for your street, your school, the park where you played, or the pond down the road.

Places and landmarks28

  • Sachem Head
  • Leetes Island
  • Acadian House
  • Bridge No. 1132
  • Chaffinch Island
  • Daniel Ave. Beach
  • Dudleytown Historic District
  • First Congregational Church
  • Griswold House
  • Guilford Art Center
  • Guilford Community Center
  • Guilford Fair Grounds
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  • Guilford Free Library
  • Guilford High School
  • Guilford Historic Town Center
  • Guilford Lakes School
  • Guilford Salt Meadow Sanctuary
  • Guilford Town Hall South
  • Hyland House Museum
  • Hyland-Wildman House
  • Indian Cove Beach
  • Jacob's Beach
  • Jacobs Public Beach
  • Meetinghouse Hill
  • Mill Pond Park
  • North Guilford
  • Nut Plains
  • Shell Beach

Streets and roads11

  • Hill Rd
  • County Rd
  • Maupas Rd
  • England Rd
  • Briarwood Ln
  • Gates Rd
  • River Rd
  • Rock Rd
  • Island Rd
  • Colonial Rd
  • Sawpit Rd

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The art of mapping a place

How This Map Was Made

Real places. Remarkable detail. Discover the layers that turn geographic data into a map of home.

  1. Aerial imagery of Mendon, Massachusetts, from the USDA NAIP program

    The view from above

    Aerial imagery reveals the character of the land: woodland, open fields, and the patterns of a place.

  2. USGS elevation data rendered as shaded relief of Mendon, Massachusetts

    The shape of the land

    Elevation data brings hills, valleys, and subtle changes in the landscape into view.

  3. Closeup of roads, waterways, and buildings on the Mendon, Massachusetts map

    The details of home

    Roads, waterways, and building footprints come together to make the map feel unmistakably local.

  4. Finished Mendon, Massachusetts map shown in a black frame

    Geography becomes art

    Considered color, shading, and typography bring the layers together in a map made for your wall.

Process illustrated with Mendon, Massachusetts. Aerial imagery: USDA NAIP. Terrain: USGS 3D Elevation Program. Map details and finished artwork: KNOWOL.

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