Pequot Library

Just over a hundred years old, the library, which was designed by New York architect Robert H. Robertson, functions as it did when it opened for the free use of the residents of Fairfield and its vicinity.

Turning from the library, walked down the right -hand path that curves through the corner of Pequot Avenue and Westway Road. Incidentally, the path's blue stone flags are the same material as the stone laid for Southport sidewalks throughout the village.

The money for these walks, which were laid down in the late 1800s, was raised by a charitable women's group called the Sasko... Sasquanog Association for Village Improvement. Cross Pequot Avenue and walk down Westway Road, the old West Main Street of Southport. On the right, you can see a bit of the old Horse Tavern Creek, one of the many small streams that drains the village.

Proceed down Westway to the corner of Willow Street, named for a tree brought back as a slip from Napoleon's grave by one of Southport's sea captains. The tree is long since gone.

Here at the corner of Westway and Willow, you can get the feeling of what this busy village must have looked like in the mid -19th century. Picket fences lined the right of way, keeping stray horses and cattle out of gardens and chickens and other livestock off the road.