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Burning of Fairfield

Fairfield Museum and History Center

On July 7th of 1779, British troops stormed the town of Fairfield, Connecticut. They burned houses, barns and shops to the ground. It was a grim moment in the middle of the American Revolutionary War. Davis Dunavin takes us to the living history of the revolution during a walking tour presented by the Fairfield Museum and History Center on Sunday.