Connecticut Water Trails Program

Connecticut Water Trails

Fairfield County

Stratford

Pecks Mill Pond

Site Location:  Stratford, Connecticut

Basic Information:

Peck's Mill pond is approximately one acre in size and is fed by the Pumpkin Ground Brook.  The pond has been a favorite fishing site for years.  Around the pond lies a small trail network which passes through a typical red maple swamp wetland area.

Type: Lake

Water Type: Fresh

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Longitude  73.115229 ºW    Latitude  41.225598 ºN

Of historical interest, the pond is the former site of a grist mill and saw mill; neither is still standing.  The pond was also used in the "ice-block" business in the early 1900's.  Peck's Mill Pond is most famous for the Trolley Disaster of 1899 when 32 people were killed in a derailment three days after the line opened.

(Click here to read the New York Times story about the derailment).

"At the urging of landscape architect Charles Downing Lay, Peck's Mill Pond was purchased (by the Town) in 1945, and dedicated as perpetual parkland on February 15, 1962.  The Conservation Commission began construction of a nature path around the pond, usable by handicapped persons.  Nine years later the town council reversed itself and

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