The Greater Bridgeport Planning Region is a planning region and county-equivalent in Connecticut. It is served by the coterminous Connecticut Metropolitan Council of Governments (MetroCOG). In 2022, planning regions were approved to replace Connecticut's counties as county-equivalents for statistical purposes, with full implementation occurring by 2024.
Image: Admission, Beardsley Zoo, 2009 11 06
Image: Fairfield County Courthouse, Bridgeport, Connecticut
Image: Stratford Point Lighthouse 2016
Image: Southport Harbour, Connecticut
Fairfield is a town in Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States. It borders the city of Bridgeport and towns of Trumbull, Easton, Weston, and Westport along the Gold Coast of Connecticut. As of 2020, the town had a population of 61,512. The town is part of the Greater Bridgeport Planning Region.
Postcard from 1932 showing bathers at Fairfield Beach
Historical Postcard of the Tide Mill Tavern, Southport
Fairfield's Burr Homestead in a 1938 photo
Pequot Library in Southport, 1966