The Ephraim Hawley House is a Colonial American wooden post-and-beam timber-frame saltbox farm house located on the Farm Highway, Route 108, on the south side of Mischa Hill in the center of the village of Nichols in Trumbull, Connecticut in New England. Construction of the house began between 1670 and 1690. The house is unique, besides being one of the oldest houses in Nichols, it has been located in four different named townships in its history, but has never been moved; Stratford (1670–1725), Unity (1725–1744), North Stratford (1744–1797) and Trumbull (1797–present).
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