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Southport Connecticut Vintage Retro Unisex Heavy Crewneck Sweatshirt - White Logo

Southport Connecticut Vintage Retro Unisex Heavy Crewneck Sweatshirt - White Logo

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The Southport heavy crewneck, for the town that rebuilt its harbor after 1779 and shipped onions to the world. A classic 50/50 fleece sweatshirt with the Southport vintage retro logo on the chest in white: the plain, durable one.

Choose this crewneck for durability and price: classic fit, ribbed collar and cuffs, a fleece that shrugs off years of washing. It is the Southport sweatshirt to buy in twos, one for home and one for the person who grew up there, and it ships free in the U.S.

This heavy crewneck sweatshirt is cut in a classic unisex fit from medium-heavy fleece, with a ribbed collar, cuffs & waistband, double-needle seams, and a tear-away label. The design is DTG-printed. Fabric is a standard 8.0 oz 50% cotton/50% polyester (Heather Sport colors 60/40). White may appear off-white; the Orange hue may vary.

Settled in 1639 as Mill River within Fairfield, with a grist mill by 1662 and a wharf by 1769, the village was burned by British and Hessian troops in July 1779; only the c.1766 Meeker House survived. The merchants rebuilt it house by house in the Federal and Greek Revival styles and incorporated it as the Borough of Southport in 1831.

By the 1890s Southport Harbor was shipping about a hundred thousand barrels a year of the Southport Globe onion to New York and the southern ports. The captains’ houses still line Harbor Road and Pequot Avenue, the 1894 Pequot Library stands in Richardsonian stone, and the harbor is one of the prettiest on the Sound. That village is the mark on this piece.


QUICK FACTS — SOUTHPORT CT HEAVY CREWNECK SWEATSHIRT

Town: Southport, Connecticut

Founded: Settled 1639 as Mill River; Borough of Southport 1831

Known for: The onion port; a 19th-century harbor village rebuilt after the burning of 1779; the Pequot Library

Art: Southport vintage retro logo, white (printed)

Blank: Unisex heavy crewneck sweatshirt, classic fit

Fabric: 8.0 oz 50% cotton / 50% polyester; Heather Sport 60/40

Details: Ribbed collar, cuffs and waistband; double-needle seams; tear-away label; DTG print

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Every item is made to order, so please check the size chart on this page before you buy. Women's fitted tees run small; size up for a looser fit. Caps are one size with an adjustable strap.

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Merlin Classics is a small Connecticut brand making original retro designs for the towns people love. Every piece is printed, embroidered or engraved to order in the USA, and the business supports hunger relief in the communities our collections celebrate.

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Then came the war. In July 1779, the day after British forces burned Fairfield, they put Mill River to the torch as well — a raid carried out by British regulars, Hessian jägers, and Loyalist troops that left almost nothing standing. Only one house, the Meeker House of about 1766, survived. What makes Southport remarkable is what happened next: instead of fading, the village rebuilt itself from the waterline up, in the crisp Greek Revival and Federal styles of the new republic. The district you can walk today is almost entirely a post-1779 creation — a town that turned its own destruction into one of the finest harbor-village streetscapes in Connecticut.

Long before it had an English name, the shore here was Sasqua — an Indigenous village of Quiripi-speaking people, part of the Paugussett and Pequot world of the Connecticut coast. In 1639 it became the western edge of the new town of Fairfield, known simply as "Mill River" for the grist mill turning on its banks by 1662. A wharf went in by 1769, and the little river mouth on Long Island Sound began its long life as a working harbor.

Why People Visit Southport Connecticut

  • Walk the Southport Historic District along Harbor Road and Pequot Avenue, lined with post-1779 Greek Revival and Federal captain's houses.
  • Visit the Pequot Library (1894), a stone Richardsonian-Romanesque landmark with reading rooms and cultural programming.
  • Look out over Southport Harbor at the mouth of the Mill River, with sailboats and the Pequot Yacht Club.
  • Relax at Southport Beach, a small cove looking toward the harbor mouth on Long Island Sound.
  • Find the Meeker House (about 1766), the lone survivor of the 1779 burning.

Southport Connecticut Merlin Classics retro vintage logo featuring an oyster over Connecticut Est. 1636