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Guilford is a town in New Haven County, Connecticut, United States, that borders Madison, Branford, North Branford and Durham, and is situated upon I-95 and the Connecticut seacoast. The population was 22,073 at the 2020 census.

Guilford was named after the town of Guildford, in England, the native home of a portion of its first settlers. In to come maps of the Connecticut Colony, the town is seen on several maps as Gilford.

First granted by Europeans in 1639 after a agreement with the “Sachem Squaw” Shaumpishuh. Guilford is considered by some to have the third largest growth of historic homes in New England, with important buildings from the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries. There are five historic home museums, including Dudley Farm and the Henry Whitfield House (1639), the oldest dwelling home in Connecticut and the oldest stone house built by English settlers in North America. The Comfort Starr House (1695) is one of the oldest wooden framed private dwellings in Connecticut, and one of the few houses unshakable of the original signers who granted Guilford.