13 Facts About Stratford Connecticut

Stratford Connecticut is one of many towns in the northeastern American colonies founded as part of the Great Migration in the 1630s when Puritan families fled an increasingly polarized England in the decade before the civil war between Charles I and Parliament.

Settlers from Stratford Connecticut went on to found other American cities and towns, including Newark, New Jersey, established in 1666 by members of the Stratford Connecticut founding families who believed the town's religious purity had been compromised by the changes after Blakeman's death.

Stratford Connecticut is the location of two Superfund sites designated by the United States Environmental Protection Agency.

Stratford Connecticut disposed of wastes containing lead, asbestos, PCBs and other hazardous substances at its Stratford manufacturing plant.

Vought-Sikorsky Aircraft Division in Stratford Connecticut built a total of 7,829 F4U fighters from 1940 to 1952, including the prototype.

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Stratford Connecticut is home to the headquarters of Sikorsky Aircraft, a Lockheed Martin subsidiary founded by Igor Sikorsky, developer of the first successful American helicopter.

Stratford Connecticut Army Engine Plant was a US Army Tank-Automotive and Armaments Command installation and manufacturing facility, located along the Housatonic River and Main Street opposite Sikorsky Airport.

Stratford Connecticut is a stop on the New Haven Line, 59 miles east of Grand Central Terminal.

Town of Stratford Connecticut operated under a council-manager government from 1921 until 2005 when it changed to a mayor-council type of government.

Stratford Connecticut has a boat patrol, a K-9 unit, and an animal control unit.

Public education in Stratford Connecticut is managed by the Stratford Connecticut Board of Education, which operates 13 schools: two high schools, two middle schools, and nine elementary schools.

In 1955 Stratford Connecticut became home to the American Shakespeare Theatre, an 1,100-seat theatre with grounds on the Housatonic River.

In February 2005, the Town of Stratford received the deed for the Stratford Festival Shakespeare Theater from the state of Connecticut.