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Antiques and the Arts Weekly was founded in 1963 by R. Scudder Smith, publisher of the Newtown Bee, a newspaper covering Newtown, Connecticut that was established by Smith's grandfather in 1877. [2] In 1988, the Weekly had a paid circulation of 23,000 in Europe, Canada, and the United States. [ 2 ]
Newtown (/ ˈ n u t aʊ n / NOO-town) is a town in Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States. It is part of the Greater Danbury area as well as the New York metropolitan area. Newtown was founded in 1705, and later incorporated in 1711. As of the 2020 census, its population was 27,173. [3] The town is part of the Western Connecticut Planning ...
The Borough of Newtown occupies about 1,252 acres (5.07 km 2) (or roughly two square miles) in the central part of town. Incorporated in 1824 by an act of the Connecticut General Assembly, it is one of only nine remaining boroughs in the state. The borough adopted zoning for the town center long before the rest of the community.
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The Newtown Borough Historic District is a 100-acre (40 ha) historic district in the borough of Newtown in Newtown, Connecticut.There is a local historic district and an overlapping district that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.
Newtown's Booth Memorial public library was opened December 17, 1932 with a capacity for 25,000 volumes. The library is a posthumous gift of Mary Elizabeth Hawley and was named after her maternal grandfather, a doctor in town from 1820 until his death in 1871.
Newtown: Built c. 1763, a two-and-a-half-story house which hosted officers of French commander Rochambeau's troops in 1781 en route to the Siege of Yorktown, Virginia. It also an example of traditional 18th-century New England architecture, and retains some details from that time period. The house is located within the Newtown Borough Historic ...
These images were still extant until October 2013, although, the building had been unused for a number of years, has been partially damaged by fire and for several years was surrounded by a metal hoarding. The Newtown PCYC was demolished in early November 2013 for the construction of a new apartment complex, resulting in the destruction of all ...