The salt marshes are yet another unique and beautiful aspect of the Stanton-Davis Homestead.
The Stanton-Davis Homestead, also known as the Robert Stanton House, is located in the Pawcatuck section of Stonington, CT, on Little Narragansett Bay. The house stands on a rocky rise in the land at the eastern edge of the property, overlooking the cornfields and salt marshes beyond. In the distance is the Bay, which opens up to Long Island Sound.
Two barns, one approximately two hundred years old and the other built about one hundred years ago, a greenhouse, several chicken coops, a pig-house, a smoke house, and a kennel also stand on the property.
The remaining property remains in agriculture, woodlands, and pristine salt marshes. Most of the property has been preserved in perpetuity by the Davis family. The surrounding land is separate from the Museum and is not open to public visitors.
The large barn behind the Stanton-Davis Homestead
"When our ancestors came to Stonington to live, they certainly chose the most beautiful place...to locate themselves, at Pawcatuck Rock, Wequetequock and Quiambaug Cove, Mystic and Quaquataug. We notice they settled usually near the water and for very good reasons... We know that the landscape did not present the same appearance then that it does now, but the same sun threw its lights and shadows over hill and valley and brightened the sparkling waters or darkened them as the clouds rolled over. The same wind blew its gentle zephyrs in summer and gales in winter. The ebb and flow of the tide...was watched then as now..."1
1 Wheeler, Grace Denison Old Homes in Stonington Mystic, CT: The Mystic Standard, 1903, preprinted 1930: 1.
