"Burying Hill is literally what the name implies - a burial ground - although unfortunately none of the gravestones remain. It was the cemetery of the Couch family, whose descendants still live in the area. Greens Farms settlers who came to Fairfield in 1648 had their own meeting house by 1711 but had no cemetery until 1725. We can surmise that the Couches shared the hill with some of the early settlers - the Greens, Andrews, Frosts and Grays.
In his book, "Greens Farms" George Penfield Jennings states he remembers seeing many gravestones on this hill, but by the time the State Legislature established the area as a town park in 1893, only one broken marker remained. Now that marker is gone. Burying Hill has the distinction of being the first park on the Connecticut shoreline recognized by the State.
The cemetery was located at the mouth of New Creek, a stream which must have been much deeper in earlier days because Captain John Gallup is reputed to have sailed up it to prevent the escape of Pequot Indians during the Great Swamp Fight on July 14, 1637."
From: Buried In Our Past. Used with permission of the Westport Historical Society, Copyright 2005 Westport Historical Society.
In his book, "Greens Farms" George Penfield Jennings states he remembers seeing many gravestones on this hill, but by the time the State Legislature established the area as a town park in 1893, only one broken marker remained. Now that marker is gone. Burying Hill has the distinction of being the first park on the Connecticut shoreline recognized by the State.
The cemetery was located at the mouth of New Creek, a stream which must have been much deeper in earlier days because Captain John Gallup is reputed to have sailed up it to prevent the escape of Pequot Indians during the Great Swamp Fight on July 14, 1637."
From: Buried In Our Past. Used with permission of the Westport Historical Society, Copyright 2005 Westport Historical Society.
"Burying Hill is literally what the name implies - a burial ground - although unfortunately none of the gravestones remain. It was the cemetery of the Couch family, whose descendants still live in the area. Greens Farms settlers who came to Fairfield in 1648 had their own meeting house by 1711 but had no cemetery until 1725. We can surmise that the Couches shared the hill with some of the early settlers - the Greens, Andrews, Frosts and Grays.
In his book, "Greens Farms" George Penfield Jennings states he remembers seeing many gravestones on this hill, but by the time the State Legislature established the area as a town park in 1893, only one broken marker remained. Now that marker is gone. Burying Hill has the distinction of being the first park on the Connecticut shoreline recognized by the State.
The cemetery was located at the mouth of New Creek, a stream which must have been much deeper in earlier days because Captain John Gallup is reputed to have sailed up it to prevent the escape of Pequot Indians during the Great Swamp Fight on July 14, 1637."
From: Buried In Our Past. Used with permission of the Westport Historical Society, Copyright 2005 Westport Historical Society.
In his book, "Greens Farms" George Penfield Jennings states he remembers seeing many gravestones on this hill, but by the time the State Legislature established the area as a town park in 1893, only one broken marker remained. Now that marker is gone. Burying Hill has the distinction of being the first park on the Connecticut shoreline recognized by the State.
The cemetery was located at the mouth of New Creek, a stream which must have been much deeper in earlier days because Captain John Gallup is reputed to have sailed up it to prevent the escape of Pequot Indians during the Great Swamp Fight on July 14, 1637."
From: Buried In Our Past. Used with permission of the Westport Historical Society, Copyright 2005 Westport Historical Society.
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