B. H. Davis, Reminiscences of Oxford Homes and People (Seymour Record - 1913), Chapter 9.
A little further on the left we come to a very old house known as the Washington Benham homestead. It is located on the corner of the Chestnut Tree Hill road and the Woodbury turnpike and was built about the beginning of the 18th century. It is a house that would attract attention from a stranger, being of the gambrel roof style of architecture that was little known a century ago. Mr. Benham lived in this many years. ...
The place then passed into the hands of Orrin Tucker and soon he commenced to make the famous Oxford doughnuts ...
(NOTE: The Washington Benham Homestead is house #81 in the EARLY HOUSES OF OXFORD, CONNECTICUT book, published 1976, Historic House Committee of Oxford's Bicentennial Commission).
About five years ago the place was bought by Lewellen Andrews. Coming there from Squantuck he also bought the Old Sanford Mill just below. The place has changed hands lately and I understand is now owned by some immigrants.
