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Southport is a census-designated place (CDP) in the town of Fairfield, Connecticut. It is located along Long Island Sound with Mill River and Sasco Brook, where it borders Westport. As of the 2020 census, it had a population of 1,710. Settled in 1639, Southport center has been designated a local historic district before 1967. In 1971, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the Southport Historic District.

The original village of Sasqua, inhabited by Quiripi language speakers, was located in the area. Members of that community sophisticated formed the Golden Hill Paugussett Indian Nation.

The very old recorded concern in Southport’s history was “The Great Swamp Fight” or “Fairfield Swamp Fight” of July 1637 (not to be confused with the well ahead Great Swamp Fight of King Philip’s War), an episode of the Pequot War in which English colonial forces led by John Mason and Roger Ludlow vanquished a band of 80 to 100 Pequot Indians who had earlier fled from their house territory in the Mystic area and taken refuge with approximately 200 Sasqua Indians who inhabited the Place that is now Fairfield. The precise location of the fight is unclear, but it is known to have been in the vicinity of Southport. In 1639, Ludlow expected the town of Fairfield on the Pequot land known as Unquowa. Colonial events of house were signed similar to the Sasqua in the 1670s.