The Quinnipiac Meadows/Eugene B. Fargeorge Nature Preserve includes tidal wetlands and salt marsh, coastal grassland, and coastal forest. Acquired by the New Haven Land Trust in various pieces over 30 years, it is named for Eugene B. Fargeorge, a Fair Haven activist and former owner of part of the site. Around 1640, Reverend John Davenport, one of the founders of the New Haven Colony, received this land as part of a 600-acre grant. The property was farmed for the next 100 years and became known as the Davenport Farm. A stone near the preserve is said to have marked the farm's boundary with Davenport's name on it. When Davenport owned the land, all of it was salt marsh, but since the 1930s much of it has been filled for construction of a water main and Interstate 91. John Davenport was an English Puritan minister who helped co-found New Haven Colony in 1638 alongside Theophilus Eaton.