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For the first century and a half of its existence, Danbury and Main Street were one and the same. The arrival of the railroads in the mid-19th century and the growth of the city's hatmaking industry began to expand it beyond Main's immediate neighborhood, and by the end of the century what had been a small village was a city with Main Street as its civic and commercial core.
The newer, main station building, on the westbound (New York City-bound) side of the tracks, was built in 1994. It has a cafe serving coffee, breakfast sandwiches, and pastries during the morning. The New York side's station building consists of a small waiting area with a gigantic glass arch, overlooking the tracks.
Germantown is a neighborhood in the city of Danbury, Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States. [2] This section is on the eastern side of Danbury, with Hospital Avenue as its main thoroughfare. It is named after the German immigrants who lived there during the 19th century to work in Danbury's hat factories.
Danbury (/ ˈ d æ n b ɛər i / DAN-bair-ee) is a city in Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States, located approximately 50 miles (80 km) northeast of New York City.Danbury's population as of 2020 was 86,518.
Danbury: 1896 school designed by architect Warren Briggs and featured in his Modern American School Buildings. One of the last 19th century schools still used in the state, and one of the last "lab schools", used for advanced teacher training. Today Danbury's alternative high school. [28]: 2, 13 79: The Lodges Historic District
Nov. 1—EAST LYME — Nearly 100 friends and customers of Cafe SoL took to the sidewalks Wednesday morning, pulling wheelbarrows full of mugs, pushing wagons piled with boxes of tea, carrying ...
The Danbury Museum and Historical Society was formed in 1947 as the result of a merger between the Scott Fanton Museum and the Danbury Historical and Arts Center. [1] During the late 19th and 20th centuries, John Fanton , a Danbury industrialist and prominent citizen, and his second wife, Laura Scott, traveled extensively through Europe , Asia ...
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