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Welcome to Easton
Fairfield County
Connecticut
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Easton, Connecticut
Easton is a town in Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States. The population was 7,272 at the 2000 census. Easton is among the most affluent communities on the eastern seaboard.
History
Easton was first settled in 1757 by men from Fairfield. In 1762 a congregation called the North Fairfield Society was established, and it gradually evolved into Easton. In 1787 Weston, then including lands now defined as Easton, was incorporated from Fairfield. The area was slow to develop because of the rough hills along the Aspetuck River, and so it was not until 1845 that Easton was incorporated from Weston. Today, while close to the New York metropolitan area, Easton remains a quiet and even rural residential town. Half of the town's property is owned by the Aquarion Water Company of Connecticut, the major supplier of water in the area.
On June 1st, 1968, the deaf and blind activist Helen Keller passed away at the age of 87 in her Easton, Connecticut home, where she chose to spend her final days.
Notable residents, past and present
Hume Cronyn, actor (Jessica Tandy's husband)
Helen Keller, blind-deaf-mute author, lived in town.
Jessica Tandy, actress (wife of Hume Cronyn}
Franco Ventriglia, opera singer, may not have lived in Easton, but he was working at a gas station in town at the time he was discovered.
Eileen Fulton was a resident.
Anne Baxter, a weekend resident.
Edna Ferber, playwright and novelist, was a weekend resident.
Dan Rather, former CBS News anchor, has been a weekend resident.
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