If you turn right at the end of Westway and walk a few paces up Harbor Road, you can get a good look at the mustard-colored house at 824 Harbor Road, owned by the Meekers in the mid-19th century but actually built almost a hundred years earlier.  This is one of the oldest buildings in Southport, built around 1765 by prosperous farmer William Bulkley.   Typical of the vernacular farmhouses of Connecticut, the home stands four square around a central chimney with a steeply pitched roof.  Unlike its 19th century neighbors, the house was covered with shingles rather than clapboard.  Originally left unpainted, shingle siding was used along the coast of Connecticut because it was thought to stand up to the salt-laden wind of the coast better than the clapboard.  The Bulkley house is one of the few survivors of the British raid on Southport in 1779, one of the many conflicts along the Sound during the Revolutionary War.  It is said that this house survived the burning because Mrs. Bulkley was a Tory sympathizer and her brother, a pilot for the British troops.  Come back to the corner of Harbor Road and Westway and cross to the water side of Harbor Road and proceed to the left.  You cross the bridge where Horse Tavern Creek flows into the harbor and walk out onto the green expanse of Perry Green.  Now turn off the tape.  See you on the green.