Just over a hundred years old, the library, which was designed by New York architect Robert H. Robertson, functions as it did when it opened “For the free use of the residents of Fairfield and its vicinity”.  Turning from the library, walk down the right-hand path that curves through the corner of Pequot Avenue and Westway Road.  Incidentally, the path’s blue stone flags are the same material as the stone laid for Southport sidewalks throughout the village.  The money for these walks, which were laid down in the late 1800s, was raised by a charitable women’s group called the Sasquanaug Association for Village Improvement.  Cross Pequot Avenue and walk down Westway Road, the old West Main Street of Southport.  On the right, you can see a bit of the old Horse Tavern Creek, one of the many small streams that drains the village.  Proceed down Westway to the corner of Willow Steet, named for a tree brought back as a slip from Napoleon’s grave by one of Southport’s sea captains.  The tree is long since gone.