The John Osborne House is a historic house at 909 King's Highway West in

Fairfield, 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. Located within the New York metropolitan area ...

. It was built in 1734, according to the tax records.Vision Government Solutions website retrieved on 2018-09-11
/ref> It was listed on the

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in 1987. The house is architecturally significant as an early colonial era house whose intact framing is somewhat unusual in its non-conformance to supposed patterns. Exact age of the house is unclear. There are suggestions the house may have been built as early as 1673. and It is located adjacent to what was the Pequot Swamp, site of the last battle of the

Pequot War The Pequot War was an armed conflict that took place between 1636 and 1638 in New England between the Pequot tribe and an alliance of the colonists from the Massachusetts Bay, Plymouth, and Saybrook colonies and their allies from the Narragans ...

of 1637. The house may be located on an 80-acre grant of land to Richard Osborne, father of John Osborne, for his services in that war.

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Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Connecticut Houses completed in 1734 Houses in Fairfield, Connecticut National Register of Historic Places in Fairfield County, Connecticut {{Connecticut-NRHP-stub

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