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Stratford is a town in Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States, located on Long Island Sound at the mouth of the Housatonic River, founded by Puritans in 1639. The population was 49,976 at the 2000 census. It has a historical legacy in aviation, the military, the arts, and environmentalism. In 1942, Igor Sikorsky with his Sikorsky Aircraft company in Stratford developed and produced the first successful single-rotor helicopter; every Marine One, the helicopter of the President of the United States, has been manufactured in Stratford from 1957 to at least 2008. The town was also the home of the Stratford Army Engine Plant for the United States military from 1939 to 1998.

Additionally, in 1955 Stratford became home to the nationally renowned American Shakespeare Festival, housed at it's 1,100 seat Stratford Festival Theatre on the Housatonic River, until it's closure. It featured such celebrities as Katherine Hepburn, Paul Newman, Jessica Tandy, Hal Holbrook, Roddy McDowall and John Houseman. Recently, controversy has arisen due to decades of asbestos waste dumping by the Raybestos corporation, housed in Stratford. Stratford additionally is home to Sikorsky Memorial Airport, and the Great Meadows Unit of the Stewart B. McKinney National Wildlife Refuge, which neighbors the airport. Today, Stratford has two Superfund sites as designated by the United States Environmental Protection Agency.

Stratford, which once included all of what is now Fairfield County, is bordered on the west by Bridgeport, Connecticut, on the north by Trumbull, Connecticut and Shelton, Connecticut, and on the east by Milford, Connecticut (across the Housatonic).

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